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title: "1 Glamour Just Quotes By Cornelia Otis Skinner"
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> [It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/it-s-not-that-i-don-t-want-to-be-a-beauty-that-i-don-t-yearn-to-be/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

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## More by Cornelia Otis Skinner

> [“My parents took us to dinner but we came back early. Tomorrow was to be a day of days and we must get a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/my-parents-took-us-to-dinner-but-we-came-back-early-tomorrow-was-to/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/tragedy-can-break-the-heart-but-not-the-dam-of-the-tearducts-while/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/the-reason-for-the-scaffolding-on-the-tower-of-saint-germain-des-pr-s/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/to-mr-blot-who-went-through-life-an-unconscious-example-of-the-raison/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/to-cement-a-new-friendship-especially-between-foreigners-or-persons/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/the-french-have-no-such-expression-as-killing-time-in-their-more/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/emily-and-i-have-now-reached-the-time-in-life-when-not-only-do-we-lie/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/women-have-a-special-corner-of-their-hearts-for-sins-they-have-never/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/there-are-compensations-for-growing-older-one-is-the-realization-that/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/there-is-no-english-equivalent-for-the-french-word-fl-neur-cassell-s/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/courtesy-is-fine-and-heaven-knows-we-need-more-and-more-of-it-in-a/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [Is man's greatest invention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/is-man-s-greatest-invention/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/all-i-have-learned-about-horses-is-that-they-are-beautiful-overrated/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/public-opinion-which-to-be-sure-can-at-times-be-helpful-must-never/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

> [Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/woman-s-virtue-is-man-s-greatest-invention/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

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