Pegler Quotes

#1. I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)

Westbrook Pegler

#2. Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

Claire Messud

#3. There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.

Boyd Rice

#4. I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Westbrook Pegler

#5. Faith in action works and gets far good results than faith

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

Westbrook Pegler

#7. I prefer to think that no writer has got time to be too concerned with style, that he is simply telling this dramatic instance in the most effective way he knows, that the book, the story, creates its own style.

William Faulkner

#8. My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

Westbrook Pegler

#9. There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

Saul Friedlander

#10. See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

Jim Butcher

#11. I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

Billy Corgan

#12. An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

Joel Kinnaman

#13. Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated ... I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

Westbrook Pegler

#14. Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?

Westbrook Pegler