Frank Crowninshield famous quotes

Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.
-- Frank Crowninshield

#Believe #Vanity #Two

We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
-- Frank Crowninshield

#Reading #Discovery #Names

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
-- Frank Crowninshield

#Men #Genius #Originality

My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.
-- Frank Crowninshield

#Country #Smart #Book

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
-- Frank Crowninshield

#America #France #Century

The only perfect climate is bed.
-- Frank Crowninshield

#Perfect #Bed #Climate

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.
-- Frank Crowninshield

#Talking #People #Hobbies

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents...

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.