Frank Crowninshield

Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life,…

— Frank Crowninshield

“... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.”

— Frank Crowninshield

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

— Frank Crowninshield

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to…

— Frank Crowninshield

My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the…

— Frank Crowninshield

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

— Frank Crowninshield

In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped,…

— Frank Crowninshield

I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its…

— Frank Crowninshield

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's…

— Frank Crowninshield

The only perfect climate is bed.

— Frank Crowninshield

For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we…

— Frank Crowninshield

We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn…

— Frank Crowninshield