335 Quotes by James Thurber

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. ‘I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,’ said Lisa.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

We all have flaws,” he said, “and mine is being wicked.

Quick, name some towns in New Jersey.

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.

Let the meek inherit the earth – they have it coming to them.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.