Janet Flanner

“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to…

— Janet Flanner

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

— Janet Flanner

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was…

— Janet Flanner

“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.”

— Janet Flanner

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

— Janet Flanner

Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now…

— Janet Flanner

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good…

— Janet Flanner

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

— Janet Flanner

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

— Janet Flanner

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of…

— Janet Flanner

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus…

— Janet Flanner

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

— Janet Flanner

When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.

— Janet Flanner

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

— Janet Flanner

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist --…

— Janet Flanner

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had…

— Janet Flanner

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the…

— Janet Flanner

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

— Janet Flanner

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a…

— Janet Flanner

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men…

— Janet Flanner

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

— Janet Flanner

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

— Janet Flanner

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at…

— Janet Flanner

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

— Janet Flanner

I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad…

— Janet Flanner