Vicki Baum
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"Hedwig (Vicki) Baum" (; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel ("People at a Hotel", 1929 - also known as "Grand Hotel"), one of her first international successes.

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To be a Jew is a destiny.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

A woman who is loved always has success.

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.