Janet Flanner Quotes

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.

- Janet Flanner

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

- Janet Flanner

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.

- Janet Flanner

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

- Janet Flanner

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

- Janet Flanner

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

- Janet Flanner