Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

In short, N is Richardian if, and only if, N is not Richardian.

Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Business | Richard Branson

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling ''Peregrine Pickle'' under the toilette --throw ''Roderick Random'' into the closet --put ''The Innocent Adultery'' into ''The Whole Duty of Man''; thrust ''Lord Aimworth'' under the sofa! cram ''Ovid'' behind the bolster; there --put ''The Man of Feeling'' into your pocket. Now for them.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

'I must've seen it in a USENET posting;' that's sort of like hearsay evidence from Richard Nixon...

Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)

There's a high pop-up behind second. Richardson has got it and he's under it.

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court

Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell ya what. If you don't know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I'll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer because you're a RETARD

Tommy Did you hear I graduated Richard Yeah and just a shade under a decade. All right. Tommy You know a lot of people go to college for seven years. Richard I know, they're called doctors.

Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take tylenol for any headaches-midol for any cramps.

Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin.

Tommy Richard, who's your favorite little rascal Alfalfa or is it Spanky

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, 'What are they doing?' The answer was, 'Swapping lies.'

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.