Last Night at the Ritz Quotes

“It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read.”
― Elizabeth Savage, Last Night at the Ritz

“The last days before graduation are bad enough, God knows--out of the womb you go, ready or not. The halls rang with the laughter of the girls who were going to be brides in the next week (and widows shortly after)...”
― Elizabeth Savage, Last Night at the Ritz

“I've asked around and haven't found a B.A. yet who doesn't still have nightmares (and I don't speak figuratively) about not being able to find the room where the exam is to be given or about realizing at the last moment that he has not once attended the course.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“There had never been anyone at all to whom she came first.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“But you can’t very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz

“The faculty member is the student’s natural enemy and if he lets down his guard he is sorry for it later, has a conscience crisis, and feels he has to turn you in. Unless he has prejudiced his own case so badly that he doesn’t wish to call administrative attention to what now appears to be a mutual folly; in this case sullen silence ensues. You may have been teacher’s pet before the weekend, but try to get an A in the course after Monday. Just try it. This is known as academic integrity.”
― Elizabeth Savage, The Last Night at the Ritz