Edward Dahlberg Quotes & Quotations

Edward Dahlberg Quotes

» There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

» Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

» I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

» Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

» We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

» Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

» One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.

» Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

» It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

» Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

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