Humbert Humbert Humbert Quotes

#1. The softness and fragility of baby animals caused us the same intense pain. She wanted to be a nurse in some famished Asiatic country; I wanted to be a famous spy.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.

Katie Hoff

#3. Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.

Margaret Heffernan

#4. We won't make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people's habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best.

Gretchen Rubin

#5. Virginia was not quite fourteen when Harry Edgar possessed her. He gave her lessons in algebra. Je m'imagine cela. They spent their honeymoon at Petersburg, Fla. "Monsieur Poe-poe," as that boy in one of Monsieur Humbert Humbert's classes in Paris called the poet-poet.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. There are few physiques I loathe more than the heavy low-slung pelvis, thick calves and deplorable complexion of the average coed (in whom I see, maybe, the coffin of coarse female flesh within which my nymphets are buried alive).

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.

Tracy Kidder

#8. The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Azar Nafisi

#9. I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Joni Mitchell

#10. Humbert the Terrible deliberated with Humbert the Small whether Humbert Humbert should kill her or her lover, or both, or neither.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. Under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.

Joshua Edward Smith

#13. My little cup brims with tiddles.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.

Vladimir Nabokov

#15. The most eloquent seems to stutter.

Laozi

#16. You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

Humbert Wolfe

#17. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

Humbert Wolfe

#19. If it must be so, let's not weep nor complain If I have failed, or you, or life turned sullen. We have had these things, they do not come again, But the flag still flies and the city has not fallen." Humbert Wolfe

Daphne Du Maurier

#20. When we were on tour, a lot of people just dropped joints on the merch table for us. That was great. Every time, I was like, "Thank you so much."

Ilana Glazer

#21. I'm just like any other person you can meet and greet on the street and like or not like. I'm not Holden or Humbert. You can really touch me! If you don't believe me, come to Aristod right now. Come hold and hump me!

Brian Celio

#22. It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

Vladimir Nabokov

#23. I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

Vladimir Nabokov