71 Quotes by 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 Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked 'Reserved": the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

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

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.