Quote

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Please
Delicately
Fastidious
Flatter
Flattery

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
True wit has a grave intention.
Mason Cooley
Image
If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
Mason Cooley
Image
Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.
Mason Cooley
Image
I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.
Mason Cooley
Image
Many think that assigning blame settles matters.
Mason Cooley
Image
The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
Mason Cooley
Image
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
Mason Cooley
Image
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Mason Cooley
Image
Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.
Mason Cooley
Image
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
Mason Cooley
Image
Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
Mason Cooley
Image
The family is on its way out couples go next then no more keeping cats or parrots.
Mason Cooley
Image
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.
Mason Cooley
Image
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason Cooley
Image
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Mason Cooley
Image
Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.
Mason Cooley
Image
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
Mason Cooley
Image
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
Mason Cooley
Image
When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.
Mason Cooley
Image
My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.
Mason Cooley