Entertainment Quotes - Page 30

• Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

  David Frum

  Conservative, Republican, Lied

  "Frum: Conservatives fleeced and ‘lied to by conservative entertainment complex’" by Drew Katchen, www.msnbc.com. November 09, 2012.

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• He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Blow, Noses

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• Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Ass, Quills

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• Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

  Robert Benchley

  Art, Empires, Holy

  Robert Benchley (1946). “One Minute, Please”

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• In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

  Richard Armour

  Art, Men, Long

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• I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.

  Alfred Kazin

  Art, Sex, Class

  Alfred Kazin (1982). “Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present”, Horizon Pr

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• Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Art, Hands, Helping

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• [Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

  Richard Armour

  Art, Epic, Long

  Richard Armour (1969). “English lit relit: a short history of English literature from the precursors (before swearing) to the Pre-Raphaelites and a little after, intended to help students see the thing through, or see through the thing, and omitting nothing unimportant”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• (Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

  Richard Armour

  Art, Writing, Reason

  Richard Willard Armour (1973). “It all started with freshman English: a survival kit for students and teachers of English and a relaxed review for those who are happily past it all”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

  Edmund Wilson

  Art, Ignorance, Taste

  Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

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• He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

  Max Eastman

  Art, Believe, Men

  Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.99, Transaction Publishers

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• Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Art, Fiction, Kind

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• I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Gains, Language

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.242, Harvard University Press

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• Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

  Lance Morrow

  Art, Fall, Ideas

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• People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Men, People

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• During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

  George Orwell

  Art, Generations, Nine

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Art, Dirty, Reading

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• If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

  Kin Hubbard

  Art, Jobs, Government

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• The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

  Sidney Hook

  Art, Philosophy, Years

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• H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.

  Ben Hecht

  Christian, Art, War

  Ben Hecht (1964). “Letters from Bohemia”

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• Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

  Wilson Mizner

  Art, Home, Writing

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Art, Miracle, Oscars

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• The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Age, Max

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions

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• M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Genius, Zola

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.925, Wordsworth Editions

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• He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

  Stanley Walker

  Art, Well Known, Confidential

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