Brendan Gill

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came…

— Brendan Gill

Parody is homage gone sour.

— Brendan Gill

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

— Brendan Gill

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

— Brendan Gill

The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well;…

— Brendan Gill

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.

— Brendan Gill

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make…

— Brendan Gill

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of…

— Brendan Gill

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion…

— Brendan Gill

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small…

— Brendan Gill

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

— Brendan Gill

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

— Brendan Gill

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy…

— Brendan Gill