Selected Quotes

"The circus has gone but the clowns stayed. "

"Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible. "

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. "

"Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it. "

"Tipping is un-American. Keep your change. "

"Look. You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. "

"I call myself Phoebe. And why not? "

"It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character. "

"I think what you realize when you do my job is that you can pretty much tell how everyone was treated by their father. Sometimes you get stuck in your period of peak rebellion. If they were a girl, and they were adored by their father, they just assumed that posture. They were very easy to be around. If they were a guy whose father was way too critical, whatever you said was a problem. Then you realize it has so little to do with you, it’s just the role. "

"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. "

"China is a sleeping giant. Let China sleep, for when she awakes, she will shake the world. "

"Donald has a tenuous relationship with the truth. "

"The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose "

"Captain Renault: How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Someday they may be scarce. You know, now I think I shall pay a call on Yvonne. Maybe get her on the rebound. Hmm? Rick: When it comes to women, you're a true democrat. "

"“Lucifer in the flesh,” the former Speaker said. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.” "

"Debbi: You're a psychopath.
  Marty: No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for *money*. It's a *job*. That didn't come out right. "

"And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world. "

"Accident rules every corner of the universe. Except maybe the chambers of the human heart. "

" The ability to learn is older -- as it is also more widespread -- than is the ability to teach. "

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. "

"Undying love is like the ghost in your villa. Everyone talks about it, but try and find one person who has seen it. "

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. "

"Q: Is there anything you would have done differently? A: "I would have done it in July." "

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. "

"O'Hara: Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook. "