Explore Book Quotes

“I’ve taught scores of American millionairesses how to speak English: the best looking women in the world. I’m seasoned. They might as well be blocks of wood. I might as well be a block of wood.”

“I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical.”

“What degradation lay in being young.”

″‘Tell me, Cricket, who you may be?’ ‘I am the Talking-Cricket, and I have lived in this room a hundred years and more.’ ‘Now, however, this room is mine,’ said the puppet, ‘and if you would do me a pleasure go away at once, without even turning around.’ ‘I will not go,’ answered the Cricket, ‘until I have told you a great truth.‘”

″‘My great-grandmother, Bisabuela Beatriz...’ That was when I began to think of her as my Bisa Bea. And I wanted her picture. ‘Hey, Mama, can I keep the picture? It’s so pretty. She’s like a doll. Can I keep it?‘”

“Take us back to the Path of the Beam. ... That’s our way home. ”

“I call it positively providential.”

“I’ll make or learn or try something I’ve never done before!”

“My high charms work, And these, mine enemies, are all knit up In their distractions. They now are in my power.”

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.