1935 Quotes

Most men—it is my experience—are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They are a little of one thing and a little of the other and nothing for any length of time: ignoble mediocrities.

~ Robert Graves

This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America

~ Ilya Ilf

A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our car. This was America.

~ Ilya Ilf

But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing.

~ Robert Graves

It was inevitable under a monarchy, however benevolent the monarch. The old virtues disappear. Independence and frankness are at a discount. Complacent anticipation of the monarch's wishes is then the greatest of all virtues. One must either be a good monarch like yourself, or a good courtier like myself—either an Emperor or an idiot.

~ Robert Graves

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

~ Robert Graves

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

~ Robert Graves