Top 15 John Oliver Hobbes Quotes

An enemy's praise heralds all treachery, </br> And grows the sweeter as revenge looks surer!

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

Not all are blind that feel the scourge of love.

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

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

... political reputations are made by saying what you think, and they are kept by saying what you don't think!

Reason! A fool can give more reasons for his folly than a saint can urge for his wisdom. We have five senses, but only one conscience. That explains everything. The game is unequal.

The wisest are those who can best adjust their disadvantages.

If women thought less of their own souls and more about men's tempers, marriage wouldn't he what it is.

... every man is practically three men. There is the man you know before he proposes: there is the man you have accepted: there is the man you have married.

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

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!

: I'd rather be ruled by a liver than by love! </br> : A liver lasts longer!

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

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.