All Peter De Vries Quotes
- A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus. Adultery
- The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. Anniversary
- The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Character
- Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. Eating
- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Inspirational
- We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. Earth
- Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. Everybody
- The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. Alive
- I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. Clock
- Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. Fishhook
- A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. Appreciation
- It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. Atheism
- The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Adult
- There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. Bites
- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than… Coat
- I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. Funny
- Life is a zoo in a jungle. Bad Day
- My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Father
- The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. Astronomy
- The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then… Absurd