Mouths Quote by Booth Tarkington

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

— Booth Tarkington

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

— Booth Tarkington

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

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

— Booth Tarkington

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

— Booth Tarkington

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

— Booth Tarkington

“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

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

— Booth Tarkington

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

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

— Booth Tarkington

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

— Booth Tarkington

“Thus began the Great Tar Fight...”

— Booth Tarkington