A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better… — Peter De Vries Adultery Copy Share Image
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter De Vries Alive Copy Share Image
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last.… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
