Janet Flanner Quotes (11 Quotes)

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

Isadore Duncan, who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.