335 Quotes by James Thurber

Geep,′ whuppled the parrot.

The Duke is lamer than I am old, and I am shorter than he is cold, but it comes to you with some surprise that I am wiser than he is wise.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn’t act sorry.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.

You’ll never live to wed his niece. You’ll only die to feed his geese.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.

To call such persons “humorists”, a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature.