All Peter De Vries Quotes
- When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. Bear
- I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. All
- We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. Bones
- We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. Brain
- Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me? Anyone
- 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… Accounts
- Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. Art
- Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came. Bewildering
- Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Beginning
- Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. Acts
- Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three… Another Week
- We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. All
- Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. Abuse
- The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes. Inspirational
- Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is. Blindness
- I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem… All
- Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another? Awfulness
- How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately? Expect
- Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable. Agreed
- 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. Could… Brilliant
- People rarely do what they don't want to. Action
- Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. Astrology
- We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother. Adventure
- What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. Assigned
- I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling… Answering