S. J. Perelman Quotes

• I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

  S. J. Perelman

  Sabe, Si

  16 Copiar cita

• El amor no es el gemido agonizante de un violín lejano, es el tañido triunfante de un muelle de cama.

  S. J. Perelman

  Amor, Aniversario, San Valentín

  63 Copiar cita

• The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

  S. J. Perelman

  Writing, Editing, Editors

  41 Copiar cita

• I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

  S. J. Perelman

  Divertida, Guapa, Chica

  1944 Crazy Like a Fox,'Captain Future, BlockThat Kick'.

  31 Copiar cita

• The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

  S. J. Perelman

  Obligación

  "I Seem to be a Verb". Book by Buckminster Fuller, p. 62, 1970.

  32 Copiar cita

• I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

  S. J. Perelman

  Writing, Hands, Believer

  16 Copiar cita

• There is such a thing as too much couth.

  S. J. Perelman

  Civilization, Too Much, Gentility

  1971 In the Observer, 24 Sep.

  26 Copiar cita

• I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

  S. J. Perelman

  Music, Symphony, Quartets

  31 Copiar cita

• Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

  S. J. Perelman

  Fate, Deck, Bottom

  "The Rising Gorge". Book by S. J. Perelman, p. 183, 1961.

  7 Copiar cita

• If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

  S. J. Perelman

  Evening, Feels, Written

  23 Copiar cita

• English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.

  S. J. Perelman

  Kindness, Too Much, Found

  1971 In the Observer, 24 Sep.

  19 Copiar cita

• I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.

  S. J. Perelman

  Running, Food, Apples

  24 Copiar cita

• Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.

  S. J. Perelman

  Country, Widows And Orphans, Entrepreneur

  19 Copiar cita

• "In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Kitchen, France

  11 Copiar cita

• I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

  S. J. Perelman

  Divertido, Humor, Crítica

  13 Copiar cita

• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  S. J. Perelman

  Food, Cooking, Teeth

  7 Copiar cita

• There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.

  S. J. Perelman

  Writing, Nineteen, Kind

  14 Copiar cita

• The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

  S. J. Perelman

  Personality, Facts

  8 Copiar cita

• To err is human, to forgive supine.

  S. J. Perelman

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Humans

  11 Copiar cita

• Si algo me han enseñado los viajes, y sin duda lo han hecho, es lo siguiente: nunca se sabe cuándo un incidente insignificante, carente por completo de importancia, puede lanzarte a la aventura o, del mismo modo, puede que no.

  S. J. Perelman

  Travel, Adventure, May

  13 Copiar cita

• La peor desgracia que le puede ocurrir a un productor es recibir una noticia desagradable de un crítico neoyorquino. Cuando esto ocurre, el productor se convierte en un paria en Hollywood. Es rechazado por sus amigos, se ve abocado a la bancarrota y, como un japonés que se hace el harakiri, se suicida.

  S. J. Perelman

  New York, Hollywood, Pariahs

  "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47, 1992.

  16 Copiar cita

• Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, California, Giving

  14 Copiar cita

• A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pale Yellow, Oil, House

  8 Copiar cita

• We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Humorous, Age

  4 Copiar cita

• Los tomates y las calabazas nunca dejan de alcanzar la madurez. Puedes rociarlos con ácido, golpearlos con palos y quemarlos; les encanta.

  S. J. Perelman

  Love, Maturity, Squash

  7 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Robert Benchley

Ogden Nash

Nathanael West

Mike Todd

Dorothy Parker

Steve Martin

Kurt Weill

Harold Ross