Top 10 Gore Vidal Quotes at QuotationFun

Displaying Top 10 Gore Vidal quotes

All Gore Vidal Quotes

Our Biography page will tell you more about Gore Vidal

Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.

The Second American Revolution (1983) - "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Case" - 1980.

Share

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

What I've Learned - 2008 - Interview by Mike Sager, Esquire.

Share

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

What I've Learned - 2008 - Interview by Mike Sager, Esquire.

Share

I shared, naturally, in that hatred of organized labor which has been the one political constant in my lifetime, culminating in Ronald Reagan's most popular gesture, the smashing of the air-controllers' union. No alternative view of organized labor has ever come to us through the popular media. If labor leaders were not crooks like Jimmy Hoffa, they were in the pay of Moscow.

Screening History - 1992 - Fire Over England.

Share

What is going on here is a deliberate revision by Current not only of Lincoln but of himself in order to serve the saint in the 1980s as opposed to the saint at earlier times when black were still colored, having only just stopped being Negroes. In colored and Negro days the saint might have wanted them out of the country, as he did. But in the age of Martin Luther King even the most covertly racist of school boards must agree that a saint like Abraham Lincoln could never have wanted a single black person to leave freedom’s land much less bravery’s home. 0So all the hagiographers are redoing their plaster images and anyone who draws attention to the discrepancy between their own past crudities and their current falsities is a very bad person indeed, and not a scholar, and probably a communist as well.

United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992) - "Lincoln and the Priests of Academe".

Share

Never have children, only grandchildren.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal

Share

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

Gore Vidal's America - 2009 - Seven part interview by Paul Jay, "On the Media" - The Real News, - 5 July 2009.

Share

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

Profile by Michiko Kakutani, - Quoted in "Vidal: 'I'm at the Top of a Very Tiny Heap,'" - The New York Times, 12 March 1981, Late City Final Edition.

Share

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

Gore Vidal's America - 2009 - Seven part interview by Paul Jay, "On American Altruism" - The Real News, - 5 July 2009.

Share

At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

America First? America Last? America at Last? - Lowell Lecture, Harvard University - 20 April 1992.

Share

Like or Follow us

Popular Authors

▪ Manzar Ayubi
▪ Vera Lynn
▪ Jean Smith
▪ Nawaz Sharif
▪ Imran Khan
▪ Tariq Aziz
▪ Sabiha Khanum
▪ Sushant Rajput
▪ Wes Unseld