Quotes by Cleveland Amory

“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”

“I cant take a well-tanned person seriously”

“The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldnt-it just stops you from enjoying it.”

“The facts of life are very stubborn things”

“A good family, it seems, is one that used to be better.”

“You cant make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.”

“You cant make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.”

“A supreme social challenge.”

“There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.”

“The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.”

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Readers Digest world.

Advice to son: Never confuse I love you with I want to marry you.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States he replied I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did. When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter he replied I have to go out and buy my own 707.

You cant make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

A good family, it seems, is one that used to be better.