John Oliver Hobbes Quotes

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Love comes to man through his senses — to woman through her imagination.

John Oliver Hobbes
Talking to you is only thinking to myself — made easier.

John Oliver Hobbes
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster which they call Destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes
He longed to make a mark, or, to express it more vulgarly, cut a figure. Now, fortunately or unfortunately, the number of figures which can be cut in the world is practically unlimited; the only difficulty is to cut precisely the kind of figure one would wish.

John Oliver Hobbes
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

John Oliver Hobbes
He did not speak again till just before he died, when he kissed his wife's hand with singular tenderness and called her 'Elizabeth.' She had been christened Augusta Frederica; but then, as the doctors explained, dying men often make these mistakes.

John Oliver Hobbes
'A man's way of loving is so different from a woman's,' sighed Anna. 'There ain't nothing,' said Mrs. Grimmage, 'there ain't nothing that makes them so sulky and turns them against you so soon as saying anything like that.'

John Oliver Hobbes
'Ah,' said that gentleman, ever ready to discuss one friend with another — in fact, it was chiefly for this pleasure that he made them...

John Oliver Hobbes
What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

John Oliver Hobbes
People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

John Oliver Hobbes
Ideals, my dear Golightly, are the root of every evil. When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

John Oliver Hobbes
Disillusions all come from within... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

John Oliver Hobbes
A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

John Oliver Hobbes
To die for one's great ideas is glorious — and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

John Oliver Hobbes