Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.
One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.
I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.