Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
Peter De Vries
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Peter De Vries
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 27
Died: 1993
Died: September 28
Editor
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Fact
Bachelor
Facts
Bachelors
Earth
Universally
Thing
Acknowledged
Ridiculous
Except
Husband
Marriage
More quotes by Peter De Vries
You ought to be ashamed, a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. Your race gave us our religion... From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods, the woman continued a little more eruditely, the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one. Which is just a step from the truth, said Stein.
Peter De Vries
Are you pro- or anti-macassar?
Peter De Vries
There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.
Peter De Vries
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Peter De Vries
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
Peter De Vries
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
Peter De Vries
People rarely do what they don't want to.
Peter De Vries
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Peter De Vries
I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.
Peter De Vries
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 the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
Peter De Vries
I tried to write worse but it was no good my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
Peter De Vries
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
Peter De Vries
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
Peter De Vries
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
Peter De Vries
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
Peter De Vries
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my sentence without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams somewhat longer for a paradox.
Peter De Vries
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
Peter De Vries
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
