86 Quotations by James Thurber
- 61. Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the p ...
- 62. Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There i ...
- 63. The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how t ...
- 64. The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mortal male would smack her little ...
- 65. The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathe ...
- 66. The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirt ...
- 67. The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
- 68. The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we ...
- 69. The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h ...
- 70. There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- 71. There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
- 72. There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 ...
- 73. Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist an ...
- 74. We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the ...
- 75. We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and t ...
- 76. We have to learn to be our own best friend, because we fall too easily into the trap of being out wo ...
- 77. Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
- 78. When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow ...
- 79. While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
- 80. While he was not dumber than an ox he was not any smarter either.
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