Joseph Epstein Quotes

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

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

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 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.