Curmudgeon Quotes by Paul Fussell

“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ”

— Paul Fussell

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

— Paul Fussell

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

— Paul Fussell

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

— Paul Fussell

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in…

— Paul Fussell

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

— Paul Fussell

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

— Paul Fussell

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and…

— Paul Fussell

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

— Paul Fussell

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

— Paul Fussell

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

— Paul Fussell

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

— Paul Fussell

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post…

— Paul Fussell

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse…

— Paul Fussell

“Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which…

— Paul Fussell