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Category: Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Long, Lose, Some

Booth Tarkington

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Happy, Old Age, Moments

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip’s a nasty thing, but it’s sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Booth Tarkington

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

Booth Tarkington

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.

Booth Tarkington

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it’s shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn’t he? When a son cuts somebody’s throat the mother only sees it’s possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil – and she’s entirely right about that!

Booth Tarkington

Is this life?’Alice wondered, not doubting that the question was original and all her own. ‘Is it life to spend your time imagining things that aren’t so, and never will be? Beautiful things happen to other people; why should I be the only one they never can happen to?

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

individuality, integrity, style

Booth Tarkington

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

men, men-and-women, sheep

Booth Tarkington

Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.

Booth Tarkington

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home…he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals…

literature, people, standards

Booth Tarkington

We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs may be in the hands of the fin-de-siecle gilded youths we see about us during the Christmas holidays. Such foppery, such luxury, such insolence,was surely never practiced by the scented, overbearing patricians of the Palatine, even in Rome’s most decadent epoch. In all the wild orgy of wastefulness and luxury with which the nineteenth century reaches its close, the gilded youth has been surely the worst symptom.

future, leader, youth