Alcohol played the midwife

— James Branch Cabell

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

— James Branch Cabell

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

— James Branch Cabell

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

— James Branch Cabell

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

— James Branch Cabell

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

— James Branch Cabell

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.

— James Branch Cabell

There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

— James Branch Cabell

...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

— James Branch Cabell