Joseph Epstein Quotes
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Envy, May)
"My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Time, Wife)
"No one has really ever defined what a friend is."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Friend)
"Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Food)
"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Envy, Fun)
"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Letters, Mail, Order)
"The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Being, Joy, Pleasure, Running)
"We know the ideal isn't where the action is."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Action)
"I am married to someone I love."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Love)
"I think the story is my form."
- Joseph Epstein
"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Being)
"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Experience, Being, Culture, Reading, Thoughtful)
"I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Envy)
"I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent."
- Joseph Epstein
"I know how deeply slothful I am."
- Joseph Epstein
"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Funny, Being, Compliment)
"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: People, Training)
"I am the heterosexual Truman Capote."
- Joseph Epstein
"I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Thought)
"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Complaint)
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Envy)
"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Confidence, Right, Wrong)