Robin Skelton

Procrustes was an editor.

— Robin Skelton

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

— Robin Skelton

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

— Robin Skelton

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

— Robin Skelton

Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

— Robin Skelton

I have no history but the length of my bones.

— Robin Skelton

Never believe what you cannot doubt.

— Robin Skelton

Headlines pass; breadlines continue.

— Robin Skelton

Some part of us still believes that men should kill.

— Robin Skelton

It is the distance between us that creates language.

— Robin Skelton

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

— Robin Skelton

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

— Robin Skelton

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

— Robin Skelton

“A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.”

— Robin Skelton