Robert Quillen quotes

Robert Quillen was an American journalist, humorist, and editor celebrated for his witty social commentary. His columns and observations appeared in newspapers across the United States, earning him national recognition. He was admired for his keen insight into everyday life and human nature. Here are 9 of his quotes:

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Robert Quillen

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Robert Quillen

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Robert Quillen

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

Robert Quillen

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Robert Quillen

Americanism: Using money you haven't earned to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like.

Robert Quillen

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

Robert Quillen

He was a writer of paragraphs and short editorials. He always hoped to write something of permanent value, but the business of making a living took most of his time and he never got around to it. In his youth he felt an urge to reform the world, but during the latter years of his life he decided that he would be doing rather well if he kept himself out of jail. ... When the last clod had fallen, workmen covered the grave with a granite slab bearing the inscription: "Submitted to the Publisher by Robert Quillen."

Robert Quillen