Quotes by Ben Hecht

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do...

#Ben Hecht

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow...

#Ben Hecht

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep...

#Ben Hecht

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

#Ben Hecht

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who...

#Ben Hecht

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

#Ben Hecht

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

#Chicago, #Cities

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

#Love, #Lovers

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members...

#Manners

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety

#Prejudice

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

#Language, #Television, #Women

Love is a hole in the heart.

#Gothic Love