59 Quotes by Cleveland Amory

You can’t make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can’t make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child’s play compared to the selection of the cat’s name.

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating – after all, they are women – but they cannot be curmudgeons.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don’t teach either.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they’re just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

As far as I’m concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

The people that set one animal against another haven’t the guts to be bullies themselves. They’re just secondhand cowards.

There are three terrible ages of childhood – 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.