The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

- Ludwig Bemelmans

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

- Ludwig Bemelmans

In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

- Ludwig Bemelmans

Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good

- Ludwig Bemelmans

For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.

- Ludwig Bemelmans

America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just …

- Ludwig Bemelmans

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

- Ludwig Bemelmans

Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he const…

- Ludwig Bemelmans

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

- Ludwig Bemelmans