# Richard Yates - Quotes: 72 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates ## Books - [A Good School](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-good-school.md) — 5 quotes - [A Special Providence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/a-special-providence.md) — 13 quotes - [Cold Spring Harbor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/cold-spring-harbor.md) — 10 quotes - [Disturbing the Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/disturbing-the-peace.md) — 7 quotes - [Eleven Kinds of Loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness.md) — 7 quotes - [Liars in Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/liars-in-love.md) — 9 quotes - [Revolutionary Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/revolutionary-road.md) — 5 quotes - [The Easter Parade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/the-easter-parade.md) — 3 quotes - [Young Hearts Crying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/young-hearts-crying.md) — 13 quotes ## Recently added quotes > Then she asked me if I wanted to know something, and without waiting to find out whether I did or not, she told me. p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/then-she-asked.md) > Being told he was right was always a tonic to Ken p. 122 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/being-told-he-was.md) > But late that night, as Irving Berlin himself might say, something kind of wonderful happened. I took that little bastard of a story and I built the hell out of it. p. 151 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/but-late-that.md) > Then he turned his chair away from his drawing board - he didn't often do that - and sat looking grave and thoughtful, examining the wet end of his cigar. "Well, hell, I'd like to get married too," he said. "I mean, I'm not really immune to it or anything, but there are a few obstacles. Number one, I haven't met the right girl. Number two, I've got too many other responsibilities. Number three - or wait, come to think of it, who the hell needs a number three?" p. 314 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/liars-in-love/then-he-turned.md) > there is an automatic pleasure in watching a thing done well. p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/there-is-an-automatic.md) > Like frustrated suburban wives we fed on each other's discontent; we became divided into mean little cliques and subdivided into jealously shifting pairs of buddies, and we pieced out our idleness with gossip. p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/like-frustrated-suburban.md) > Then they came out, Finney wearing the foolish smile you sometimes see in the crowds that gape at street accidents p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/eleven-kinds-of-loneliness/then-they-came.md) > And she was halfway up the stairs before he decided that his best reply was to make no reply at all. p. 342 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/liars-in-love/and-she-was.md) > "Well, I think Phil's got a fairly good chance of getting in there, maybe even on a scholarship. It sounds fine; still, all I know about Harvard is the reputation, you know - the outside view. And that's sort of like the Empire State Building, right? You see it from a distance, maybe at sunset, and it's this majestic, beautiful thing. Then you get inside, you walk around a couple of the lower floors, and it turns out to be one of the sleaziest office buildings in New York: there's nothing in there but small-time insurance agencies and costume-jewellery wholesalers. There isn't any reason for the tallest building in the world. So you ride all the way up to the top and your eardrums hurt and you're out there at the parapet looking out, looking down, and even that's a disappointment because you've seen it all in photographs so many times. Right? So I don't know; I think Phil and I'd better go up to Harvard for a couple of days and kind of snoop around." p. 315 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/liars-in-love/well-i-think.md) > She too was a divorced mother, though her former husband had vanished long ago and was referred to only as "that bastard" or "that cowardly son of a bitch". p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/liars-in-love/she-too-was.md) > "Because you see there are millions and millions of people in New York - more people than you can possibly imagine, ever - and most of them are doing something that makes sound. Maybe talking, or playing the radio, maybe closing doors, maybe putting their forks down on their plates if they're having dinner, or dropping their shoes if they're going to bed - and because there are so many of them, all those little sounds add up and come together in a kind of hum. But it's so faint - so very, very faint - that you can't hear it unless you listen very carefully for a long time." p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/liars-in-love/because-you-see.md) > if self-deception was an illness she was well into its advanced stages. p. 221 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/liars-in-love/if-self-deception-was.md)