86 Quotes by James Branch Cabell

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.