P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke Famous Quotes & Sayings
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How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me.
The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.
Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.
Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If we don't need them, no harm is done.
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.
Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
The sternest commissar and the wildest hippie both share the same daydream: that a thing can be worth other than people are willing to give for it.
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for progressives to be racists.
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.
How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.