Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
Author: Yogi Berra, referring to a popular restaurant
A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt, referring to John Tyler (10th U.S. President)
An authentic phony.
Author: James “Scotty” Reston, in describing Ronald Reagan
I knew her before she was a virgin.
Author: Oscar Levant
If I say, “Oh nice,” about seven times in the same show, things aren’t going well.
Author: Oprah Winfrey
You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
Author: Dolly Parton
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
Author: Lee Iacocca
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Author: Walt Disney
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
Author: James Thurber
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
Author: Tom Lehrer
I don’t drink. I don’t like it. It makes me feel good.
Author: Oscar Levant
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
The truest poetry is the most feigning.
Author: William Shakespeare
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Author: Pablo Picasso
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can attain it in nothing.
Author: Eugene Delacroix
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Author: Edgar Degas
Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.
Author: Albius Tibullus
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Author: Edward Gibbon
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s own ignorance.
Author: Confucius
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Author: Chuang-Tzu
A nation is only at peace when it’s at war.
Author: Hugh Kingsmill
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Author: Lao-Tzu
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Author: Alphonse Karr
The superfluous is the most necessary.
Author: Voltaire
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Author: Victor Hugo
Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.
Author: Albert Guerard
Free love is too expensive.
Author: Bernadette Devlin
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
Author: Albert Camus
Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.
Author: Stanislaw Lec
I am deeply superficial
Author: Ava Gardner
Acting is happy agony.
Author: Alec Guinness
Less is more.
Author: Robert Browning