Quotes by Thurber, James

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. >>

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there w >>

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awaren >>

Quotations about Theater

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly >>

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it >>

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by >>

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

Thurber, James