Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.