P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Talking, Two, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.1071, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Children, Food

• I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Journalism, Language

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.235, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Helping, Language

• The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Vocabulary

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.130, Atlantic Books Ltd

• The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Real, Ideas

  "The Bachelor Home Companion. A practical guide to keeping house like a pig". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1986.

• The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Chinese, Paper

  P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

• We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Doubt, Hunters, Language

  Source: www.avclub.com

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