A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better… — Peter De Vries Adultery Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Freedom Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries Bears Copy Share Image
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce… — Peter De Vries Children Copy Share Image
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Funny Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the… — Peter De Vries Eye Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may… — Peter De Vries Accounts Copy Share Image
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. — Peter De Vries Eating Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Instruments Copy Share Image
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Parenting Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the… — Peter De Vries Brilliant Copy Share Image
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a… — Peter De Vries Confession Copy Share Image
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the… — Peter De Vries Crowded Copy Share Image
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. — Peter De Vries Feels Copy Share Image
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any. — Peter De Vries Bored to death Copy Share Image
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. — Peter De Vries Car Copy Share Image
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. — Peter De Vries Education Copy Share Image
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries Brain Copy Share Image
“How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would… — Peter De Vries Grief Copy Share Image
Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister. — Peter De Vries Able Copy Share Image
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to… — Peter De Vries Firsts Copy Share Image
The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own. — Peter De Vries Character Copy Share Image
