Orson Welles Famous Quotes



My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock."

When you are down and out something always turns up-and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.


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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
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Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.
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"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
A C Benson

"The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended."
Robert Burns

"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."
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"Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life."
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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