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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
— Booth Tarkington
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
— Booth Tarkington
Careful, Arturo Bandini: don't strain your eyesight, remember what happened to Tarkington, remember what happened to James Joyce.
— John Fante
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.
— Booth Tarkington
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
— Booth Tarkington
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
— Booth Tarkington
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
— Booth Tarkington
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
— Booth Tarkington
Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
— Booth Tarkington
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
— Booth Tarkington
Not quite so long ago as a generation, there was no panting giant here, no heaving, grimy city . . . there was time to live.
— Booth Tarkington
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
— Booth Tarkington
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
— Booth Tarkington
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.
— Booth Tarkington
I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
— Booth Tarkington
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
— Booth Tarkington
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
— Booth Tarkington