Skip to content

What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

— Burton Rascoe Bennett Cerf in Shake Well Before Using (1948)

Another quote →

Topics

Marriage

More quotes by Burton Rascoe

Perfection is a costly flower and is cultured only by an uncompromising, strict husbandry.

Introduction to Chivalry (1921)

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.

Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933)

It is the quality and intensity of the dream only which raises men above the biological norm; and it is fidelity to the dream which differentiates the exceptional figure, the man of heroic stature, from the muddling, aimless mediocrities about him.

Introduction to Chivalry (1921)

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

the dedication to The Pumpkin Coach (1935)

All Burton Rascoe quotes →

You may also like

The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman (1903)

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance (1893)

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

Victor Hugo Les Misérables (1862)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Burton Rascoe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.