Best 12 quotes of Vera Caspary on MyQuotes

A smile couldn't be brought into court as evidence. You couldn't arrest a man because he had trembled. Brown eyes had stolen a peep at gray eyes, so what? The tone of a voice was something that died with a word.

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too good for the pavement.

For this was the age of The Girl. We had come out of the back parlor, out of the kitchen and nursery, we turned our backs upon the blackboards, shed aprons and paper cuffs. A war had freed us and given women a new kind of self-respect. The adjective poor no longer preceded the once disreputable "working girl". It was honorable, it was jolly, it was even superior to be a "career girl".

He came of a race of drinkers who look contemptuously upon an alcoholic content of twelve percent, unaware that the fermented grape works its enchantments more subtly than the distilled spirits of grain. I do not imply that he was drunk; let us say, rather, that the Tears of Christ opened his heart.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury.

The magnificence of my skeleton is hidden by the weight of my flesh.

The skeleton in my closet carries a hammer and sickle.