Quotes · Skopia

45 quotes

1856

★ 6.9

Letter

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

Groucho Marx

1949

★ 6.9

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

1942

★ 6.0

Novel

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 5.6

Film · War (film) · War

There is no racial bigotry here! I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops, or greasers! Here, you are all equally worthless!

Gunnery Sargent Hartman

Full Metal Jacket · 1987

★ 4.5

Play · Tragedy (play)

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 4.0

Philosophical literature

One might perhaps say that this very thing is probable, that many things happen to men that are not probable.

Agathon

Aristotle, Rhetoric

★ 4.0

Travel writing

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 3.9

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!

President Merkin Muffley

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 3.8

Film · Black comedy (film) · War (film) · Black comedy · War

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

President Merkin Muffley

Dr. Strangelove · 1964

★ 3.8

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

America is great indeed. Imagine a country so free, one can throw glass on the streets!

Prince Akeem

Coming to America · 1988

★ 3.8

Play

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

1951

★ 3.7

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Oh, now you’re saying that I’m redundant, that I repeat myself, that I say things over and over!

Frasier Crane

Cheers · 1985

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Fantasy (film) · Comedy · Fantasy

There's nothing to explain. You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen.

Vizzini

The Princess Bride · 1987

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Well that's where I see things just a little differently. Contract or no, I will not bow to any sponsor.

Wayne Campbell

Wayne's World · 1992

★ 3.7

Film · Prison drama (film) · Drama (film) · Prison drama · Drama

You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

Andy Dufresne

The Shawshank Redemption · 1994

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

That was stupid. How the hell you gonna get fired on your day off?

Mr. Jones

Friday · 1995

★ 3.7

Novel

The majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

1894

★ 3.6

Essay · Philosophical literature

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics · 1910

★ 3.6

Film · Western (film) · Western

Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization.

Doc Josiah Boone

Stagecoach · 1939

★ 3.6

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince · 1943

★ 3.6

Novel

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

1889

★ 3.5

Play · Comedy (play)

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

W. Somerset Maugham

1921

★ 3.5

Poem

Some of my best friends are white boys. When I meet 'em I treat 'em just the same as if they was people.

Ray Durem

1951

★ 3.5

Poem

Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?

Bertolt Brecht

1956

★ 3.5

Radio broadcast · Novel · Science fiction

The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe · 1978

★ 3.5

I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn't realize what a strong person I was, I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn.

Ray Bradbury

2002

★ 3.5

Letter

The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his.

Charles Farrar Browne

1866

★ 3.5

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

1916

★ 3.5

Novel

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

1954

★ 3.5

Mr. Coolidge's genius for inactivity is developed to a very high point. It is far from being an indolent activity. It is a grim, determined, alert inactivity which keeps Mr. Coolidge occupied constantly. Nobody has ever worked harder at inactivity, with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task.

Walter Lippmann

1927

★ 3.4

Play · Comedy (play)

Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure · 1616

★ 2.2

Film · Neo-noir · Mystery (film) · Mystery

To tell you the truth, I lied a little.

J.J. Gittes

Chinatown · 1974

★ 2.2

TV program · Comedy (TV)

I don't like talking to people I know, but strangers I have no problem with.

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm · 2002

★ 2.2

Poem · Narrative poem

Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 2.1

Letter

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Mark Twain

1878

★ 2.1

Film · Science fiction (film) · Science fiction

Take your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human!

Attar

Planet of the Apes · 2001

★ 2.0

Treatise · Economic literature

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

1950

★ 1.9

Comedy album · Comedy (stand up)

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations · 1999

★ 1.9

Poem

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg

A Supermarket in California · 1956

★ 1.9

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

You know, I started out on clean up, just like you guys. But now…see, I’m washing lettuce. Soon I’ll be on fries; then the grill. A year or two, I make assistant manager, and that’s where the big bucks start rollin' in.

Maurice

Coming to America · 1988

★ 1.9

Film · Crime comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Crime comedy · Comedy

It's disgusting the way they splash this stuff all over the newspapers! What is journalism coming to? You're laying on top of the queen with her legs wrapped around you and they call that news. They can't kick you off the force, Frank! It's just not fair!

Capt. Ed Hocken

Naked Gun · 1988

★ 1.9

Travel writing

What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.

Bill Bryson

Neither Here Nor There · 1991

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

Apostle Paul

Romans 7:19 · 56

★ 1.8

Essay

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility.

Thomas De Quincey

1839

★ 1.8

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