I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability — Peter De Vries Doe Copy Share Image
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter De Vries Alive Copy Share Image
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries Diction Copy Share Image
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we… — Peter De Vries Ends Copy Share Image
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. — Peter De Vries Education Copy Share Image
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy. — Peter De Vries Astrology Copy Share Image
“I believe that man must learn to live without those consolations called religious, which is own intelligence must by now have told… — Peter De Vries Adventure Copy Share Image
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration:… — Peter De Vries Conclusion Copy Share Image
Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then… — Peter De Vries Conditions Copy Share Image
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. — Peter De Vries God Copy Share Image
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. — Peter De Vries Bears Copy Share Image
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers,… — Peter De Vries Age Copy Share Image
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. — Peter De Vries Combination Copy Share Image
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after. — Peter De Vries Being a mom Copy Share Image
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce… — Peter De Vries Children Copy Share Image
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo,… — Peter De Vries Calling Copy Share Image
“We live this life by a kind of conspiracy of grace: the common assumption, or pretense, that human existence is 'good' or… — Peter De Vries Faith Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. — Peter De Vries Enough Copy Share Image
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. — Peter De Vries Heart Copy Share Image
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. — Peter De Vries Adults Copy Share Image
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is. — Peter De Vries Blindness Copy Share Image
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to… — Peter De Vries Blind Copy Share Image
