All Peter De Vries Quotes
- 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
- Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation —… Apollonian
- Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. From
- He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking… Acquire
- What people believe is a measure of what they suffer. Believe
- What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much… Baffles
- Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself… Break
- I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to… All
- A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else. Anyone
- I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any. Any
- Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. Cookie
- Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. Acts
- Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that… Adult
- Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness Happiness
- A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after. Car
- We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. All