335 Quotes by James Thurber

Now, taking books, or anything else, from a little girl is like taking arms from an Arab, or candy from a baby...

It’s an agent of the devil, sent to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should.

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

The average sendentary man of our time who is at all suggestible must emerge from this chapter believing that his chances of surviving a combination of instinct, complexes, reflexes, glands, sex, and present-day traffic conditions are about equal to those of a one-legged man trying to get out of a labyrinth.

On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.

Something very much like nothing anyone had ever seen before came trotting down the stairs and crossed the room."What is that?" the Duke asked, palely."I don't know what it is," said Hark, "but it's the only one there ever was.

...I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

People who do not understand pigeons―and pigeons can be understood only when you understand that there is nothing to understand about them―should not go around describing pigeons or the effect of pigeons.

Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now.