Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Ludwig Bemelmans

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian author Ludwig Bemelmans.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Ludwig Bemelmans was an Austrian-American writer and illustrator of children's books and adult novels. He is known best for the Madeline picture books. Six were published, the first in 1939.

Austrian - Author | April 27, 1898 - October 1, 1962

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

Ludwig Bemelmans

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

Ludwig Bemelmans

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

Ludwig Bemelmans

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

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 constantly seeks: perfection.

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

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

Ludwig Bemelmans

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

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 as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.

Ludwig Bemelmans

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

Ludwig Bemelmans

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

Ludwig Bemelmans

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

Ludwig Bemelmans