Cars
Quotes on Cars
No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfils a man’s ego like an automobile.
Sir William (later Lord) Rootes (1894-1964) British automobile manufacturer
A noisy exhaust almost amounts to a mating call.
J. A. Leavy (b. 1915) British businessman, Conservative politician
There is no class of person more moved by hate than the motorist
C. R. Hewitt (C. H. Rolphe) (b. 1901) British author, journalist
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
Roland Barthel (1915-1980) French academic
I don’t even like old cars . . .I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.
J. D. Salinger (b. 1919) American author
