James Branch Cabell

“Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”

“People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.”

“No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.”

“Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.”

“Patriotism is the religion of hell.”

“I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.”

“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.”

“Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?”

“No lady is ever a gentleman.”

“While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.”

“Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong”