Gore Vidal Famous Quotes
"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."
"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."
Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
"Never have children, only grandchildren."
"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn."
I'm a born-again atheist.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
A good deed never goes unpunished.
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Gore Vidal Quotations
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
Dwight D Eisenhower
A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.
James Clarke
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
Charles Monroe Schultz
"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect."
Ted Turner
"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."
H G Wells
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Francis
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
Latin Proverb
"It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated."
Newt Gingrich
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
Matthew Prior
Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius