Booth Tarkington Quotes

• Una esposa ideal es cualquier mujer que tiene un marido ideal.

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  Inspiración, Matrimonio, Boda

  1924 Looking Forward And Others, 'The Hopeful Pessimist'.

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• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

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  Gossip, Denied

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• Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

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  Personality, Style, Doe

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.4, Booklassic

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• Tómate en serio tu trabajo pero nunca te tomes en serio a ti mismo y no te tomes en serio lo que te pase a ti o a tu trabajo.

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  Experience, Seriousness, Happens

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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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  School, Boys, Years

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Penrod”, p.102, Booklassic

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• Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

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  Passion, Fate, Destiny

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.284, Booklassic

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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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  Fun, Fool, Pretending

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Alice Adams”, p.247, Booklassic

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• Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

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  People, Opinion, Arguing

  Booth Tarkington (1932). “The Works of Booth Tarkington”

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• The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

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  Love, Husband, Wife

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• The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Sky

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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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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  Ninety Nine, People, Gossip

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com

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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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  Mean, Age, Quality

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• I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual civilization ... But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us expect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.

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  Change, Spiritual, War

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

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  Men, Sheep, Shepherds

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• So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

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  Happiness, Happy, Long

  Booth Tarkington (1932). “The Works of Booth Tarkington”

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• Mi teoría sobre la literatura es que un autor que no se deja llevar por la basura escribe sobre gente que podrías introducir en tu propia casa... no le importaba leer un libro o ir a ver una obra de teatro sobre gente que no le importaría conocer en su propia mesa. Creo que debemos vivir según ciertas normas e ideales.

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  Creer, Libro, Inicio

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• They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

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  Boys, Men, Land

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2630, eBookIt.com

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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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  Drinking, Taken, Men

  Penrod (1914) ch. 10

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• Sin duda es verdad que hay más regocijo en el cielo por un pecador arrepentido que por todos los santos que consistentemente permanecen santos, y las gentilezas raras y repentinas de la gente arrogante tienen infinitamente más efecto que la gentileza continua de la gente gentil. La arrogancia convertida en dulzura derrite el corazón.

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  Heart, People, Heaven

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.64, Booklassic

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• Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

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  Romance, Youth, Imagine

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.32, Booklassic

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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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  Law, Apples, Important

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.42, Booklassic

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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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  Gone, Old Time

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.57, Booklassic

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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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  Silly, Names, Mouths

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2178, eBookIt.com

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• Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

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  Ciencia

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• 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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  Desire, Males, Female

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Penrod”, p.58, Booklassic

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