Joseph Epstein Quotes

We know the ideal isn’t where the action is.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don’t have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.