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Quotes About Assholes

Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect are assholes, it's exactly the sort of thing an asshole is apt to say. (183)
~ Geoffrey Nunberg
When Roger Ailes said that NPR executives were 'the left wing of Nazism," he wasn't trying to tar NPR as evil in the eyes of the general public or the Congress, but to signal to others on his team that they owed NPR no courtesy or respect and had permission to be assholes about the organization. (209-10)
~ Geoffrey Nunberg
And you brought the ski mask?" "Yes. It's not cold, though, even up above." "It's not for the cold. The pegasi like to chase birds. Birds don't like to be chased." "Okay." Whatever that meant. Chapter 10 BIRDS WERE ASSHOLES.
~ Ilona Andrews
Are you an asshole, Michael?" she asked. He laughed. "What?" "An asshole. Because you look like a really nice guy, and I've found they make the biggest closet assholes.
~ Suzanne Young
The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o' rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o' poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.
~ Tom Robbins
The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Opinions are like assholes everyone's got one, but some stink worse than others!
~ Tara McCune
The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what Victoria was to monarchs, Dickens to novelists, Burton to explorers, Robert E. Lee to generals, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse was to assholes.
~ Neal Stephenson
So, this guy walks into the bar and says to the bartender, 'You know, all lawyers are assholes.' And a guy at the end of the bar says, 'Hey, I heard that. I resent that.' And the first guy says, 'Why? Are you a lawyer?' And the other guy says, 'No, I'm an asshole.
~ Nelson DeMille
As he maneuvered the boat, he said, "In the old days of gunboat diplomacy, if some pisspot country attacked Westerners, a naval fleet would assemble and bombard the port city until it burned to the ground. Now… well, the primitive little assholes of the world get away with too much.
~ Nelson DeMille
I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.
~ Laini Taylor
And sometimes those major, monumental crises have no effect on certain types. Which means, no matter what the circumstances, assholes remain assholes.
~ Nora Roberts
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes.
~ Larry David
Socrates, and politicians. I took a shot. You're right—no matter how much we explain, assholes like that lawyer
~ James Patterson
Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.
~ Harry Callahan
The FBI was run by arrogant assholes who took credit when cases got solved and pointed the finger when they broke bad.
~ James Swain
A disarmingly accurate generalization about assholes: They know a lot, however brittle their knowledge becomes under intimacy's whitest, hottest lights.
~ Tom Bissell
I'm not mentally ill," she insisted, fidgeting in her chair. "I'm just very neurotic and I'm always falling in love with assholes.
~ Pat Conroy
Lady,' Rydell said carefully, 'I think you're crazier than a sack full of assholes.' Her eyebrows shot up. 'There,' she said. 'There what?' 'Color, Mr. Rydell. Fire. The brooding verbal polychromes of an almost unthinkably advanced decay.
~ William Gibson
They'd started out as a church, or in a church, not liking anyone being gay or getting abortions or using birth control. Protesting military funerals, which was a thing. Basically they were just assholes, though, and took it as the measure of God's satisfaction with them that everybody else thought they were assholes.
~ William Gibson
23:07 Captain: Shit, we have everything! 23:14 Mechanical voice alert: Wind shear! Wind shear! Wind shear! 23:17 Captain: Shit, what the hell have these assholes [maintenance] done?
~ Christopher Bartlett
Not enough samurai in the world today. Just a bunch of assholes running wild with much too much freedom." Henry Rollins, from his book Solipsist.
~ Henry Rollins
All bullshit and no death and mutilated assholes makes Jack a dull boy, dull and tense.
~ Henry Rollins