Louis Auchincloss

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of read more

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.

The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake read more

The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they read more

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.