John William Van Druten famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.
-- John William Van Druten

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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
But I don't want nutrition. I want food!
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

John William Van Druten famous quotes

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