Errol Flynn Quotes about Wisdom

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

I want faith; but I am faithless

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Has every oyster a different taste?

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich