Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

- Robin Skelton

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

- Robin Skelton

It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

- Robin Skelton

It is the distance between us that creates language.

- Robin Skelton

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

- Robin Skelton

Procrustes was an editor.

- Robin Skelton

Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

- Robin Skelton

Some part of us still believes that men should kill.

- Robin Skelton

Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

- Robin Skelton