Quotes About Quote

But if that's the case, Anderson, then in my opinion God is a bugger. You can quote me on that.

that the only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

I don't indulge in hypotheticals, said Achilles. Except the hypothetical charge that I plan to kill you in your sleep during the voyage back to Earth. Not my accusation, said Achilles. I was quoted in your defense. Your 'defense' is the only reason anyone heard of the accusation, said Ender.

I'm not a character in one of your novels." "More's the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.

Expendable Ram says, 'Good.'" "Expendable Ram can eat poo," said Rigg. "All expendables can process any organic matter they ingest and extract energy from it.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless. Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden. But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins! I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing. That may be, but the muffins are the same!

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.' 'It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.