Louis Auchincloss

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

The crowd has a way of being right.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.