George Washington Cable Quotes

#1. He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

Mark Twain

#2. It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.

George Washington Cable

#3. The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.

Anita Roddick

#4. Be your sacred-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

George S. Patton

#6. There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

George Washington Cable

#7. Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

George Washington Cable

#8. There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

Max Lerner

#9. I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever.

Witold Gombrowicz

#10. Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

George Washington Cable

#11. For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

George Washington Cable

#12. And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

George Washington Cable