All Herman Wouk Quotes
- Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. Anodyne
- Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong… Cannot Escape
- This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud. All
- Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. Discount
- I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans. American
- Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us… Appetite
- War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them. Business
- The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you… Designed
- Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and… All
- My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. Familiar
- The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,… Blood
- The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be… Available
- I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge. Artistic
- Write a page a day. It will add up. Add
- The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot. Able
- Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth. All
- The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. America
- A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight. Ahead
- ... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife. Constitutes
- Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime. Hours
- ... a war always ends. Always Ends
- Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand. Complicated
- The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see… Always Seemed
- We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. Ablaze
- The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith... Blood