Best Quotes by Booth Tarkington (Top 10)
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Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
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Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
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Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
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Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!
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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.
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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.
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
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No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
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More Booth Tarkington Quotes
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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!
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Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.
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It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.
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The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
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My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...
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Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
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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.
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Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.
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Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
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Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink
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One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.
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