Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
Drawer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
James Grover Thurber
Might
Involving
Butlers
Never
Described
Gracefully
Men
Presence
Poise
Bed
Sophistication
Husband
Formidable
Comedy
Prestige
Situation
Menace
Ability
Cope
Butler
More quotes by James Thurber
She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.
James Thurber
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
James Thurber
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
James Thurber
American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.
James Thurber
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
James Thurber
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
James Thurber
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.
James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
James Thurber
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
James Thurber
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
James Thurber
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
James Thurber
I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
James Thurber
