43 Quotes by Caitlin Thomas

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots ...

... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.