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Top 20 Bernard DeVoto Quotes (2025 Update)

Bernard DeVoto Quote: “This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.”

1. “This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.”

— Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.”

2. “The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.”

3. “The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.”

4. “The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “Art is man determined to die sane.”

5. “Art is man determined to die sane.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived.”

6. “You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived.”

— Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop – for convenience, the one hundredth meridian – you have reached the West.”

7. “The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop – for convenience, the one hundredth meridian – you have reached the West.”

— Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto Quote: “History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.”

8. “History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.”

9. “The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.”

10. “Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.”

— Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto Quote: “Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.”

11. “Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man’s lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?”

12. “Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man’s lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?”

— Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto Quote: “You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.”

13. “You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.”

14. “The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.”

15. “The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.”

16. “Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.”

17. “The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.”

18. “The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.”

— Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto Quote: “When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.”

19. “When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.”

20. “One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.”

— Bernard DeVoto

Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.”

21. “The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.”

22. “A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.”

23. “The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.”

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Bernard DeVoto Quote: “California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.”

24. “California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.”

— Bernard DeVoto

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