Quotes from Thorne Smith

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

rage among smart women. We'll all be doing it soon. That, by the way, is whom I'm supposed to be—George Sand. I've just remembered. Famous writer. Lived with a lot of men. All different.

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

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

California, here I come.

making. Little birds were always so excited. He had

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.