Literature Quotes - Page 78

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.