Thorne Smith Quotes & Sayings

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere. — Thorne Smith

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved. — Thorne Smith

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books. — Thorne Smith

He discovered in his heart the first faint whispering of pure Christianity, and in some way he continued to keep his virtue intact by keeping his vices active. — Thorne Smith

For the first time Topper's established routine of living gave place to a disorderly desire to live. — Thorne Smith

Vanity and prejudice have as usual played havoc with the truth, and Mr. Topper's reputation has been tossed into a furnace of frantically wagging tongues. The — Thorne Smith

making. Little birds were always so excited. He had — Thorne Smith

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. — Thorne Smith

Topper was making her realise how calculatingly cruel and unsympathetic she was, how stubborn as a wife and inadequate as a friend. No — Thorne Smith

He was committing a terrible crime. He was destroying her good opinion of herself. Topper — Thorne Smith

All her years of maturity had been devoted either to distorting or side-stepping the less agreeable facts motivating her self-indulgent conduct. — Thorne Smith

We must just keep on and on until the mountains themselves crumble from nausea or we learn to scale them and cool our hands in the sky. — Thorne Smith

She had one of those twisty minds that find no difficulty in sublimating their meanest little impulses to almost dizzily ethical heights. — Thorne Smith

Rest here with me a moment," he said, "and let the world go to hell. — Thorne Smith

If men had to have babies there wouldn't be any sex life left. — Thorne Smith