In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls… — 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
