Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

By being politically correct, you're closing your mind to a different point of view. Which sounds a lot like prejudice. Which is definitely not politically correct. See what I just did there?

I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

In principle, I am against principles.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced. I hate critics. ... And now, as the saying goes (yesterday, I couldn't even spell critik), and now I are one.

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.