Fat Volumes

Famous quotes containing the words fat and/or volumes:

“A fat stomach sticks out too far, Monsieur La Rue. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.”
—Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)

“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)