Social Critic Quotes

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Does killing time damage eternity?

He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me!

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election

I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found.

Is there another word for synonym?

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away... and you don't know what time it is?

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me.

A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance.

I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack.

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

Why is it called 'after dark' when it really is 'after light'?

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

I try not to see new comics - their acts or their films. Part of that is professional. I don't want to be influenced. But another part is fear and jealousy. I'm afraid to see how good they might be. I don't like that emotion, but it's part of me.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.