James Branch Cabell
Novelist
1879-04-14
Books by James Branch Cabell
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Jurgen
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Figures of Earth
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Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-worship
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Quotes by James Branch Cabell
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No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.
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No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.
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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.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results; but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation resisted.
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