126 Quotes by Herman Wouk

He still had not the slightest understanding of why he had really come; he blamed himself for a late flare of desire crudely masked as a need for advice. He had no way of recognizing the very common impulse of a husband to talk things over with his wife.

The reason for the prosperity of the wicked, and also for the troubles of the good, is not in our hands.” Then.

If you’re not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

It’s occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.

The clear intent of our law is to enable a man to live in the world and yet hold his faith close to his daily thoughts.

The trouble started one morning when there was a fog.

And my revulsion wasn’t against your religion, but all religions. They’re all more or less alike. You can’t blame the human race for preferring some bright storyteller’s dream or other to the black cold meaningless dark of the real universe.

Please tell Field Marshal Goring for me, to stick his Swiss bank account up his fat ass.

This is an excellent martini – sort of tastes like it isn’t there at all, just a cold cloud.