John Oliver Hobbes Quotes

... he fell a too ready victim to circumstances: he helped to build the altar for his own sacrifice.

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

I'd rather be ruled by a liver than by love!
A liver lasts longer!

Dearest, every man—even the most cynical—has one enthusiasm—he is earnest about some one thing; the all-round trifler does not exist. If there is a skeleton—there is also an idol in the cupboard!

Ideals, my dear Golightly, are the root of every evil. When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

What a man has done bores everybody, but what he is going to do is always delightful.

Disappointments—like fate and love—will not bear to be too much talked about.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

... entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ...

To die for one's great ideas is glorious—and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

... unimaginable moments lack
Th' appropriate language we would give to them.
For daily talk and excellent occasions
There is a stock of sentiments all wound
Like skeins of wool around our tongues.
We hold them Deliciously tinged for every use.

... I had rather sleep and eat and dance
Than hear a nightingale any day o' the week!