Ludwig Bemelmans Quotes

#1. We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#2. To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#3. Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good

Ludwig Bemelmans

#4. It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#5. For gypsies do not like to stay -
They only come to go away.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#6. And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.

Jay Carney

#7. Her hair was grey and curly, her eyes a soft blue, her body seeming

Jane Green

#8. Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#9. The purpose of art is to console and amuse - myself, and, I hope, others.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#10. A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Jack Kevorkian

#11. That's right. I am a coldhearted woman.

Tsutomu Satou

#12. The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#13. I don't keep any copy of my books around ... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#14. America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#15. I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning.

Raymond Chandler