Cleveland Amory Quotes - Page 2

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• There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

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  Childhood, Age, Three

  "The Cat and the Curmudgeon".

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• Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

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  Girl, President, Remember

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• It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.

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  Writing, Long, Letters

  Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

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• People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

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  Men, Class, People

  Cleveland Amory (1980). “The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back”, G K Hall & Co

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• I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

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  Writing, Today, Garbage

  Cleveland Amory (1980). “The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back”, G K Hall & Co

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• The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

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  Mules, Parks, Faces

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• I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

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  Inspiration, Insult, Wells

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• Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

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  Funny, Husband, Support

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• You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

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  Cat, Stills

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• It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons.

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  Reading, Men, One Day

  Cleveland Amory (1991). “The cat and the curmudgeon”

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• The facts of life are very stubborn things.

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  Stubborn, Facts, Facts Of Life

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• Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

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  Country, Past, New Day

  Cleveland Amory (1980). “The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back”, G K Hall & Co

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• The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

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  Today, Graves, Customers

  Cleveland Amory (1980). “The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back”, G K Hall & Co

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• I will omit but I will not distort.

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