Top 5 Carol McD. Wallace Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Being perfectly turned out, from kid slippers to lace parasol, including pearl-embroidered petticoats and the third new pair of gloves that day, was the exclusive province of the American woman. More, it was her patriotic duty. The daughters of dukes could indulge in loose-waisted “pre-Raphaelite” dresses, but Americans had to look like aristocrats.”

— Carol McD. Wallace

2. “When out driving with his mistress, a gentleman places her at his left hand so that everyone he meets will know she is not his wife.”

— Carol McD. Wallace

3. “Any aspirant who deviated from the standards laid down by Mrs. Astor and Ward McAllister was doomed. A big house, tasteful parties, fine horses, a reasonably presentable husband guaranteed nothing. If Mrs. Astor refused to know you, you might as well be living in Cleveland.”

— Carol McD. Wallace

4. “Vincent wrote once in a letter that a man who commits suicide turns his friends into murderers.”

— Carol McD. Wallace

5. “But the strict rules of precedence produced much odder situations: fathers taking their daughters in to dinner since the girls were the highest-ranking women there; young boys called down from the schoolroom to sit at the head of the table; a general yielding place to his aide-de-camp because the latter was a lord.”

— Carol McD. Wallace

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