Chauncey Depew Quotations

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship.

I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.