James Thurber Quotes & Quotations

James Thurber Quotes

» Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

» The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

» Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

» He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

» I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

» We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

» While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

» It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

» Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?

» Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

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