Cleveland Amory Quotes

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

Support your right to arm bears.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

I will omit but I will not distort.

The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Advice to son: Never confuse "I love you" with "I want to marry you."

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.