Churchill, Jennie -- Small Talk on Big Subjects, “Friendship” (1916)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Jennie Jerome Spencer-Churchill (1854-1921) American-British socialite [Lady Randolph Churchill]
Small Talk on Big Subjects, “Friendship” (1916)

Churchill, Jennie -- Quoted in London Daily Chronicle (16 Feb 1921)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It’s people who are moral or immoral.

Jennie Jerome Spencer-Churchill (1854-1921) American-British socialite [Lady Randolph Churchill]
Quoted in London Daily Chronicle (16 Feb 1921)

In response to a Philadelphia clergyman dictating that for a gown to be "moral" it must be cut no more than 7½" off the ground or 3" below the neck.

WIST Quotations

Churchill, Jennie -- Small Talk on Big Subjects, “Friendship” (1916)

Churchill, Jennie -- Quoted in London Daily Chronicle (16 Feb 1921)