Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why just go ahead and scold Him. He’ll just smile and nod.
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren’t diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren’t they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn’t catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.
Everything about life is a joke. Don’t you know that?
Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.
We’d been apart so long – I’d been dead so long,” she said in English. “I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.” “My life is nothing but room for you.” I said. “It could never be filled by anyone but you.
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
Most kids can’t afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.
If somebody says “I love you” to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? “I love you, too.”
Live while you live, when you’re dead you’re dead.
Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.