“There are no second acts in American lives.”

“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.”

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”

“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.”

“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”

“One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil”

“The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.”