86 Quotes by James Branch Cabell

The religion of Hell is patriotism, and the government is an enlightened democracy.

When you consider that presidents and chief-justices and archbishops and kings and statesmen are human beings like you and me and the laundryman, the thought becomes too horrible for humanity to face.

I am looking for my wife, whom I suspect to have been carried off by a devil, poor fellow!

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong.

Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.