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 very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even… — 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
