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James Branch Cabell Quotes (58 quotes)
 | “The Terrible and Marvellous History of Manuel Pig-Tender That Afterwards Was Named Manuel the Redeemer.” ―James Branch Cabell Source/Notes: Title of a fictional work that he quotes from at the start of the book. - The Certain Hour (1916) |
| “Thus he labors, and loudly they jeer at him; — That is, when they remember he still exists. Who. you ask, is this fellow? — What matter names? He is only a scribbler who is content.” ―James Branch Cabell Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916) |
| “The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.” ―James Branch Cabell Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916) |
| “Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.” ―James Branch Cabell Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916) |
| “Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.” ―James Branch Cabell Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916) |
| “At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?” ―James Branch Cabell Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916) |
| “It spurred me to such action as I took, — but it has robbed me of sugared eloquence, it has left me chary of speech. It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence.” ―James Branch Cabell Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916) |
| “Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, — and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?” ―James Branch Cabell Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916) |
| “Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?” ―James Branch Cabell Source/Notes: Auctorial Induction - The Certain Hour (1916) |
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James Branch Cabell
Born: April 14, 1879
Died: May 5, 1958 (aged 79)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Novelist, author
Bio: James Branch Cabell, ; April 14, 1879 May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his works were most popular.
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