"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Copy Share
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but… — Peter De Vries Copy Share
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Copy Share
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries Copy Share
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Copy Share
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues.… — Peter De Vries Copy Share
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather… — Peter De Vries Copy Share
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he… — Peter De Vries Copy Share
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. — Peter De Vries Copy Share
