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30 quotes by Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 – September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. He has been described by the philosopher Daniel Dennett as "probably the funniest writer on religion ever".
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

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There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

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