"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."

Williams, Tennessee | Sensitivity | 1 bookmarks

"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time."

Fleming, Ian | Sex | 6 bookmarks

"Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."

Hazlitt, William | Sarcasm | 1 bookmarks

"Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation."

Marcus, Greil | Rock and Roll | 2 bookmarks

"The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes."

Vries, Peter De | Riches | 1 bookmarks

"Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."

Anouilh, Jean | Riches | 1 bookmarks

"Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability."

Winters, Shelley | Respectability | 1 bookmarks

"Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it."

Bruce, Lenny | Sarcasm | 1 bookmarks

"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity."

Millet, Kate | Romance and Romanticism | 1 bookmarks

"Youth has become a class."

Vadim, Roger | Youth | 2 bookmarks