The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
“I mean the things that we have and that we think are so solid—they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into. You know how wreath of smoke goes up from a chimney, and seems… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
“My wife says Ambersons don’t make lettuce salad the way other people do; they don’t chop it up with sugar and vinegar at all.… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world. — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
“In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones- they had time for everything: time to… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
“So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
