Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2007/01/12/the_last_word.php
Friday, January 12, 2007
One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.
—Jack the Ripper
Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
—Richard Wagner
All Hindu traders are very fat and delicious to a lion.
—Ernest Hemingway
I hate small towns because once you’ve seen the cannon in the park there’s nothing else to do.
—Lenny Bruce
There is no one who would have me—I can’t cook.
—Greta Garbo
She was what we used to call a suicide blond—dyed by her own hand.
—Saul Bellow
I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
—Aldous Huxley
A little still she strove, and much repented, and whispering, “I will ne’er consent”—consented.
—Lord Byron
It isn’t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.
—George Burns
Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
—Barbara Bush
All lovers swear more performance than they are able.
—William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
—Dorothy Parker
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
—W. Somerset Maugham
Facts are the enemy of truth.
—Don Quixote
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
—Oscar Wilde
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
—Salvador Dali
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
—James Joyce
Hamlet’s experience simply could not have happened to a plumber
—George Bernard Shaw
Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s day to day living that wears you out.
—Anton Chekhov
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
—H. L. Mencken
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
—Emily Bronte
Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
—E.M. Forster
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
—Edna St Vincent Millay
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.
—W. H. Auden
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
—Moliere
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
—Arthur Rimbaud
I call architecture frozen music.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Someone asked me once: “How are you?” The answer was, “Fine. If you don’t ask for details.”
—Katharine Hepburn
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
—Bertolt Brecht
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
—Henry Fielding