James Branch Cabell said this quote

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

~ James Branch Cabell

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

~ 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

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

~ James Branch Cabell