My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train:… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
“... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.” — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with. — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
