What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.

- Lucius Beebe

A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

- Lucius Beebe

George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.

- Lucius Beebe

High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at…

- Lucius Beebe

I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small mea…

- Lucius Beebe

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

- Lucius Beebe