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James Branch Cabell Quotes

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Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn’t a moustache  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) 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  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) No lady is ever a gentleman  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Trapped dreams must die  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) People never want to be told anything they do not believe already  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Patriotism is the religion of hell  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) There is no gift more great than love  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) I am willing to taste any drink once  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger  (James Branch Cabell Quotes) Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn’t I have changed a trifle?  (James Branch Cabell Quotes)
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