Harvey Quotes

“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. ”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“In this world, Elwood, you must be oh-so-smart or -oh-so-pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“I have always been considerably addicted to my own company.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds, culminating in a cheap funeral.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
~Elwood P. Dowd”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“Against the background of the War and its brutal stupidity those men had stood glorified by the thing which sought to destroy them…. I”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“I've been spending my life among flyspecks... while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 4th and Fairfax”
― Mary Chase, Harvey

“Rambling among woods and meadows, I could ‘take sweet counsel’ with the country-side; sitting on a grassy bank and lifting my face to the sun, I could feel an intensity of thankfulness such as I’d never known before the War; listening to the little brook that bubbled out of a copse and across a rushy field, I could discard my personal relationship with the military machine and its ant-like armies. On”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“I didn’t want to die – not before I’d finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“I am staring at a sunlit picture of Hell, and still the breeze shakes the yellow weeds, and the poppies glow under Crawley Ridge where some shells fell a few minutes ago.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“The purgatory I'd let myself in for always came between me and the pages; there was no escape for me now.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

“None of us could know how insignificant we were...”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer