James Branch Cabell Quotes

There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

alcohol played the midwife

James Branch Cabell

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

James Branch Cabell

...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

James Branch Cabell

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

James Branch Cabell

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

James Branch Cabell

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

James Branch Cabell

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

James Branch Cabell