Quotes by James Cabell

• There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
• Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?
• While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
• Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
• Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
• People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.