Quotes by Louis Auchincloss

• With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
• A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
• Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
• We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.