Dick Diver – Character Quotes

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing.

It’s hard to go on liking people who don’t like you.

You mustn’t confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

...so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.

Tell a secret over the radio, publish it in a tabloid, but never tell it to a man who drinks more than three or four a day.

Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves.
Now, human respect—you don’t call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them

I don’t like ickle durls. They smell of castile soap and peppermint. When I dance with them, I feel as if I’m pushing a baby carriage.

I like France, where everybody thinks he’s Napoleon—down here everybody thinks he’s Christ.