All Peter De Vries Quotes
- 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
- Are you pro- or anti-macassar? Anti
- Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up. Always Pick
- Exercise is an unnatural act. Act
- If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. Countering
- All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. Acquainted
- I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like… Cent
- Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful. Inspirational
- There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ... Breakfast
- ... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor. Acknowledged
- I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability Doe
- Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat… Arguing
- Time heals nothing-which should make us better able to minister. Able
- I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. Any
- I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged. Came
- The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. Bowel