James Branch Cabell People Quotations

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.