“To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Cornelia Otis Skinner 
50% of people like this quote
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
46% of people like this quote
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
44% of people like this quote
Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
33% of people like this quote