John Oliver Hobbes Quotes

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

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!

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

Reader. But where are the Unities? </br> Author. In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

Disillusions all come from within...from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

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

Not all are blind that feel the scourge of love.

If the gods have no sense of humour they must weep a great deal.

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

Marriage is like a good pie spoilt in the baking. Everything is admirable except the result! It is very heavy... very, very heavy!

He did not speak again till just before he died, when he kissed his wife’s hand with singular tenderness and called her "Elizabeth." She had been christened Augusta Frederica; but then, as the doctors explained, dying men often make these mistakes.

All forced virtue is degrading in its effect.

My dear, a man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife or his friends—he has to devote himself wholly to his enemies!

Ah, it is silliness to pass a wolf because one is hunting foxes.