Dimitri Verhulst Quotes & Sayings

Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature. — Dimitri Verhulst

The oldest regretted the decline of the custom of wearing hats, because what did today's youngsters have left to take off their heads when they bumped into the doctor on the street? — Dimitri Verhulst

They were only to glad to come, ... as an alibi to test their charms ... but once they'd made it into the house their hearts where in their boots because they knew enough to see that here Madame Verona was still living off the interest. — Dimitri Verhulst

It was truer to my father to let the songs he'd sung die with him, little by little, averse at a time. How could these art-mongers constantly ignore the mortality of beauty, a pleonasm if ever I'd heard one? — Dimitri Verhulst

I've never had any rights in this country and I'm happy to renounce any I'm supposed to have. That way they can't bother me. — Dimitri Verhulst