Top 120 Herman Wouk Quotes (2024 Update)
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Herman Wouk Quote: “Not that I really think the Caine is inanimate. It’s an iron poltergeist sent into the world by God.”

101. “Not that I really think the Caine is inanimate. It’s an iron poltergeist sent into the world by God.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “The circle of gleaming green numbers on the black face of the gyroscope compass ticked steadily counterclockwise and the heading increased: 95 degrees, 100, 105, 120, 150. Queeg.”

102. “The circle of gleaming green numbers on the black face of the gyroscope compass ticked steadily counterclockwise and the heading increased: 95 degrees, 100, 105, 120, 150. Queeg.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “He still had not the slightest understanding of why he had really come; he blamed himself for a late flare of desire crudely masked as a need for advice. He had no way of recognizing the very common impulse of a husband to talk things over with his wife.”

103. “He still had not the slightest understanding of why he had really come; he blamed himself for a late flare of desire crudely masked as a need for advice. He had no way of recognizing the very common impulse of a husband to talk things over with his wife.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “There is no morality in world history. There are only tides of change borne on violence and death. The victors write the history, pass the judgments, and hang or shoot the losers. In truth history is an endless chain of hegemony shifts, based on the decay of old political structures and the rise of new ones. Wars are the fever crises of those shifts. Wars are inevitable; there will always be wars; and the one war crime is to lose. That is the reality, and the rest is sentimental nonsense.”

104. “There is no morality in world history. There are only tides of change borne on violence and death. The victors write the history, pass the judgments, and hang or shoot the losers. In truth history is an endless chain of hegemony shifts, based on the decay of old political structures and the rise of new ones. Wars are the fever crises of those shifts. Wars are inevitable; there will always be wars; and the one war crime is to lose. That is the reality, and the rest is sentimental nonsense.”

— Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk Quote: “Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end – only at the end it becomes more obvious.”

105. “Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end – only at the end it becomes more obvious.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “The Talmud is not only an encyclopedia of law but a work of folk art, a hymn to the Lord rising out of many generations of men who spent their lives in the quest for him. This quest for God, the confident search for the holy in every busy detail of life, is its grand single theme. The Talmud recaptures a long golden age of intelligence and insight, and it is to this day the circulating heart’s blood of the Jewish religion.”

106. “The Talmud is not only an encyclopedia of law but a work of folk art, a hymn to the Lord rising out of many generations of men who spent their lives in the quest for him. This quest for God, the confident search for the holy in every busy detail of life, is its grand single theme. The Talmud recaptures a long golden age of intelligence and insight, and it is to this day the circulating heart’s blood of the Jewish religion.”

— Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk Quote: “Germany’s grand aim, he says, must be a Nordic racial alliance in which England maintains its sea empire, while Germany as its equal partner takes first place on the continent and acquires new soil in the east.”

107. “Germany’s grand aim, he says, must be a Nordic racial alliance in which England maintains its sea empire, while Germany as its equal partner takes first place on the continent and acquires new soil in the east.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “So it is to Hitler. He has never moved when he couldn’t get away with it.”

108. “So it is to Hitler. He has never moved when he couldn’t get away with it.”

— Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk Quote: “The girl you marry and the woman you must make a life with are two different people.”

109. “The girl you marry and the woman you must make a life with are two different people.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “The toiling masses,′ and all that. This country has no toiling masses, we have Dan at the diner and Verne in the mine and Jerry in the steel mill and Burdette at the filling station and so on. They don’t toil, for Christ’s sake, they do a day’s work and then they go home and have a beer. You can’t get them into a mass for anything. If there’s a good ball game on TV they won’t come out to see the president ride by.”

110. “The toiling masses,′ and all that. This country has no toiling masses, we have Dan at the diner and Verne in the mine and Jerry in the steel mill and Burdette at the filling station and so on. They don’t toil, for Christ’s sake, they do a day’s work and then they go home and have a beer. You can’t get them into a mass for anything. If there’s a good ball game on TV they won’t come out to see the president ride by.”

— Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk Quote: “A democracy in a backward or unstable country simply gets smashed by the best-organized power gang.”

111. “A democracy in a backward or unstable country simply gets smashed by the best-organized power gang.”

— Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk Quote: “The Caine was a pile of junk in the last hours of decay, manned by hoodlums.”

112. “The Caine was a pile of junk in the last hours of decay, manned by hoodlums.”

— Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk Quote: “She was, in fact, Katharine Hepburn, playing a store clerk in the first reel of a smart comedy.”

113. “She was, in fact, Katharine Hepburn, playing a store clerk in the first reel of a smart comedy.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “Rothmore rasped, “Do you think an IQ is something real, like a nose? It’s a... number dreamed up by... psychologists, and all it proves is that farmers aren’t as smart as psychologists. If the farmers had enough time to wast to make up an IQ system, the psychologists would all come out morons and the farmers geniuses.”

114. “Rothmore rasped, “Do you think an IQ is something real, like a nose? It’s a... number dreamed up by... psychologists, and all it proves is that farmers aren’t as smart as psychologists. If the farmers had enough time to wast to make up an IQ system, the psychologists would all come out morons and the farmers geniuses.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “My view is that Hitler and the Nazis have grown out of the heart of German culture – a cancer, maybe, but a uniquely German phenomenon. Some very clever men have given me hell for holding this opinion. They insist the same thing could have happened anywhere, given the same conditions: defeat in a major war, a harsh peace treaty, ruinous inflation, mass unemployment, communism on the march, anarchy in the streets – all leading to the rise of a demagogue, and a reign of terror.”

115. “My view is that Hitler and the Nazis have grown out of the heart of German culture – a cancer, maybe, but a uniquely German phenomenon. Some very clever men have given me hell for holding this opinion. They insist the same thing could have happened anywhere, given the same conditions: defeat in a major war, a harsh peace treaty, ruinous inflation, mass unemployment, communism on the march, anarchy in the streets – all leading to the rise of a demagogue, and a reign of terror.”

— Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk Quote: “None of the authorities have experienced the worst of enough typhoons to make airtight generalizations. None of the authorities, moreover, are anxious to acquire the experience. The.”

116. “None of the authorities have experienced the worst of enough typhoons to make airtight generalizations. None of the authorities, moreover, are anxious to acquire the experience. The.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “Judd sighed. “I don’t know why people take criticism so seriously. One good creator is worth all the critics who ever lived.” “Criticism is necessary to literature,” Hawke said, and felt a fierce disgust with himself. It was as though he were trying to soothe a homicidal lunatic. Judd said, “Nonsense, criticism is a minor form of entertainment, a sort of piggy-back writing that rides on other men’s work.”

117. “Judd sighed. “I don’t know why people take criticism so seriously. One good creator is worth all the critics who ever lived.” “Criticism is necessary to literature,” Hawke said, and felt a fierce disgust with himself. It was as though he were trying to soothe a homicidal lunatic. Judd said, “Nonsense, criticism is a minor form of entertainment, a sort of piggy-back writing that rides on other men’s work.”

— Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk Quote: “It’s a great mistake to think dictators are all-powerful! They’re hobbled by their paper shufflers, like all politicians. More so, in a way.”

118. “It’s a great mistake to think dictators are all-powerful! They’re hobbled by their paper shufflers, like all politicians. More so, in a way.”

— Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk Quote: “People who can solve a lot of problems by simply dying are the ones who hang on and on.”

119. “People who can solve a lot of problems by simply dying are the ones who hang on and on.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “The last war ruined Germany. Another war will be the absolute end of our country.”

120. “The last war ruined Germany. Another war will be the absolute end of our country.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “Morgenstern settled the matter, in her customary way, by going into the kitchen and coming out with a large soup plate from her best china set. She called the couple to the dining-room table, and told them to take hold of the plate and break it on the table. They did so, looking puzzled at each other. The fragments flew all over the floor, and the parents embraced each other, shouting.”

121. “Morgenstern settled the matter, in her customary way, by going into the kitchen and coming out with a large soup plate from her best china set. She called the couple to the dining-room table, and told them to take hold of the plate and break it on the table. They did so, looking puzzled at each other. The fragments flew all over the floor, and the parents embraced each other, shouting.”

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Herman Wouk Quote: “Look at a politician, eighty years old, making a speech to a crowd in the rain. What’s driving him? Not ambition. He’s been a senator for forty years. He can never be anything more. But by winning this election he can have one more Hit. He’d rather die of pneumonia than risk missing the Hit.”

122. “Look at a politician, eighty years old, making a speech to a crowd in the rain. What’s driving him? Not ambition. He’s been a senator for forty years. He can never be anything more. But by winning this election he can have one more Hit. He’d rather die of pneumonia than risk missing the Hit.”

— Herman Wouk

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