Humbert's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!

Sheri Cobb South

#4. When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.

David A.R. White

#5. 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

#6. We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Major Owens

#7. I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.

Vince Young

#8. It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.

Maria Edgeworth

#9. I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

May Sarton

#10. He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

James M. Barrie

#11. 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

#12. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.

Ezra Taft Benson

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

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. 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

#15. Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

Huston Smith

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

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. When a heroine is satisfied that she has exercised judgement with clear vision, moral principle,and common sense, she need not acquiesce to opposing viewpoints.

Jane Austen

#18. 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

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

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Humbert Wolfe

#21. 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

#22. Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going to edit your work. It's so wide open. People just grunt and that's a song. You can kind of do anything.

Mirah

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. When you know better and you don't do better, you're no better

Jeff Van Gundy

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

Vladimir Nabokov

#27. My little cup brims with tiddles.

Vladimir Nabokov