335 Quotes by James Thurber

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life.""The firefly's ?" said the minstrel."The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

A soft finger touched his shoulder and he turned to see a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark describable beard.

The cold Duke was afraid of Now, for Now has warmth and urgency, and Then is dead and buried.

There was a smell, the Golux thought, a little like Forever in the air, but mixed with something faint and less enduring, possibly the fragrance of a flower.

The jewels of sorrow last forever

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.

...the Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless days, the distant shining shores of Ever After. Your guess is quite as good as mine (there are a lot of things that shine) but I have always thought she did, and I will always think so.

You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.