All Peter De Vries Quotes
- 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
- 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