Best Quotes by Alexander Theroux (Top 7)

  1. It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
  2. There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
  3. September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
  4. Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
  5. Silence is the unbearable repartee.
  6. The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.
  7. Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?