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Cornelia Otis Skinner quotes

American Actress May 30, 1901 – July 9, 1979

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Cornelia Otis Skinner quote: "One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions. Cornelia Otis Skinner
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. Cornelia Otis Skinner
There is no English equivalent for the French word flneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the... Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner quote: "Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have..."
Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner quote: "Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. Cornelia Otis Skinner
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner quote: "Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention."
Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. Cornelia Otis Skinner

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