Clarence Kelland Quotes & Sayings

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. — Clarence Budington Kelland

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. — Clarence Budington Kelland

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. — Clarence Budington Kelland

My father didn't tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it — Clarence Budington Kelland