Monday, June 30, 2008

Bon mot for the week

"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."

Kitty O'Neill Collins

Who? Well, precisely! I am once again taunted by an online quotations treasury with no biographies. Ms Collins seems to have come up with quite a few worthy epigrams, widely anthologized on the Net - but no-one out there actually seems to know who she is (Wikipedia has yet to hear of her). I wonder if perhaps she is the Kitty O'Neill played by Stockard Channing in a '70s TV movie Silent Victory - a deaf stuntwoman, race car driver, and land speed record-holder??

Answers in a comment, please, if you know.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

According to this page, she was Jean Kerr's mother.

Huh.

Froog said...

Why, thank you, JES.

Jean Kerr was just as much of a mystery to me, but I learn that she was quite a prolific and successful writer - author of 'Don't Eat The Daisies', which was made into a Doris Day film.

I had rather fallen in love with the notion that Kitty was the lady racing driver, though. It seems not.

It's still something of a mystery as to how she produced so many quotable quotes and is so widely anthologised, when she does not appear to have been a published author and nothing further is known of her on the Net.