Last Word Quotes

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

I've said all that I've had to say.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

I love film because you have the last word. I never get that on stage because you've got to really believe; you've got to get the actors to trust you, and they have to believe in you, and then hopefully they will when you open the show.

I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it.

… adjudged not to him who had the truth on his side, but by the last word in the dispute.

If, as is contended by the advocates of “deterrence,” cruelty in punishment is justified by the “deterrent” effect which these persons credit it with, then surely the rack, the wheel, and the thumbscrew are the last word of penal wisdom. If hanging and the plank-bed are “deterrent” and hence justifiable, then … the stake and the rack are more “deterrent” and hence more justifiable.

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing.

I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word.

I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote".