Cleveland Amory
Cleveland Amory
Cleveland Amorywas an American author, reporter and commentator and animal rights activist. He originally was known for writing a series of popular books poking fun at the pretensions and customs of society, starting with The Proper Bostonians in 1947. From the 1950s through the 1990s, he had a long career as a reporter and writer for national magazines, and as a television and radio commentator. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he was best known for his bestselling books about...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth2 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.
On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.
Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.
I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.
I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end.
What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.
For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.