The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.