Quotes from Wilfrid Sheed

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

If God had died in the blare of the twentieth century and in houses too new and cheap to be haunted, one must seek him in the old quiet places, where he might still live on in retirement.

suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

The bad debater never knows that one explanation is better than five.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.