Count Bruga Quotes

“Count Hippolyt Bruga was neither a count nor was his name Hippolyt Bruga.”
― Ben Hecht, Count Bruga

“Indeed there is no torture as difficult to bear as the impotence of Truth - the realization that our conception of ourselves is futile. It is this inability to endure the almost mystical pain of contradiction which makes the owner of a Truth so unreasonable and violent a custodian.”
― Ben Hecht, Count Bruga

“Sex," he mused, "is a necessary vacation from beauty. It is a Public Comfort Station in which one may decorously pay homage to certain impressive but unimportant needs.”
― Ben Hecht, Count Bruga