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Top 25 Wilfrid Sheed Quotes (2025 Update)

Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “If the French were really intelligent, they’d speak English.”

1. “If the French were really intelligent, they’d speak English.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.”

2. “Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.”

3. “Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.”

4. “Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “The American male doesn’t mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.”

5. “The American male doesn’t mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “It’s the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don’t, you miss the whole point.”

6. “It’s the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don’t, you miss the whole point.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “The 1930s – a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.”

7. “The 1930s – a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. “Scattered showers, periods of sunshine.””

8. “The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. “Scattered showers, periods of sunshine.””

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Mushy reviews are a breach of faith.”

9. “Mushy reviews are a breach of faith.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “The only reason I didn’t kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn’t decide which one to jumo into.”

10. “The only reason I didn’t kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn’t decide which one to jumo into.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.”

11. “As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.”

12. “You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.”

13. “Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “The spiritual life becomes very simple when you’re sick.”

14. “The spiritual life becomes very simple when you’re sick.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “The town is as full as ever of ‘characters,’ all created by each other.”

15. “The town is as full as ever of ‘characters,’ all created by each other.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we’re allowed to do it, it’s too late.”

16. “How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we’re allowed to do it, it’s too late.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Books about suicide make lousy gifts.”

17. “Books about suicide make lousy gifts.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one’s Michener.”

18. “Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one’s Michener.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn’t designed for a human in the first place.”

19. “As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn’t designed for a human in the first place.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.”

20. “The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.”

21. “People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.”

22. “Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy – but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.”

23. “Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy – but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Every writer is a writer of the generation before.”

24. “Every writer is a writer of the generation before.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.”

25. “I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.”

26. “Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.”

27. “Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying “Arise, sir Knight” deserves a life sentence in Camelot.”

28. “Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying “Arise, sir Knight” deserves a life sentence in Camelot.”

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Wilfrid Sheed Quote: “For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.”

29. “For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.”

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