86 Quotes by James Branch Cabell

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his.

…nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbor chooses.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

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.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

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