Edna Ferber

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

— Edna Ferber

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

— Edna Ferber

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

— Edna Ferber

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

— Edna Ferber

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

— Edna Ferber

I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are…

— Edna Ferber

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay,…

— Edna Ferber

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only…

— Edna Ferber

Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the…

— Edna Ferber

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

— Edna Ferber

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination,…

— Edna Ferber

“Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go…

— Edna Ferber

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

— Edna Ferber

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

— Edna Ferber

There's no sauce for play like work.

— Edna Ferber

“He sat looking down at his hands--his fine strong unscarred hands. Suddenly and unreasonably he thought of another pair of hands--his mother's--with…

— Edna Ferber

“But best of all, the fascination of the People I'd Like to Know. They pop up now and then in the shifting…

— Edna Ferber

Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week.…

— Edna Ferber

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals…

— Edna Ferber

“On, no. I hate those arty little places. I like dining in a hotel full of all sorts of people. Dining in…

— Edna Ferber

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

— Edna Ferber

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas…

— Edna Ferber

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

— Edna Ferber

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours,…

— Edna Ferber

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing…

— Edna Ferber