Peter De Vries Quotes
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Nostalgia)
"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Soul, Confession, Sense)
"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."
- Peter De Vries
"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Eating, Gluttony)
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Love, Being, Writer)
"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Death)
"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Experience, School, Summer, Thinking)
"Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Heart, Pain, Question)
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: God, Order, Proof)
"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Chance)
"Life is a zoo in a jungle."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Life, Jungle)
"My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Father, Hate, Television)
"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning."
- Peter De Vries
"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Marriage, Children, Value)
"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Words)
"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Marriage, Children, Value)
"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Victims)
"We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Love, Nothing)
"The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Food, Museums, Restaurants)
"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Nothing, Parenthood)
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Matrimony)
"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Universe)
"The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Music)
"The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Taxes)
"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Food, Museums, Restaurants)
"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Love, Marriage, Character, Difficulty, Personality)
"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Earth)
"Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Celibacy, Self)
"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."
- Peter De Vries
(Related: Car, Mother, Children)