Booth Tarkington Quotes

For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement. ~ Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington But her correctness was of the finer sort, and had no air of being studied or achieved; conduct would never offer her a problem to be settled from a book of rules, for the rules were so deep within her that she was unconscious of them. ~ Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington Thirteen is embarrassed by the beginnings of a new colthood; the child becomes a youth. But twelve is the very top of boyhood. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her--especially if that is what she desires. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. ~ Penrod by Booth Tarkington