Top 23 Quotes by Joseph Epstein

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

I think the story is my form.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.