335 Quotes by James Thurber

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mortal male would smack her little mouth, so smooth, so firm, so free of nicotine, alcohol and emotion.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.