460 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke

You don’t despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

If a journalist shows a facility for praise he’s liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he’s got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids – another career blown to hell.

There’s something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you’ll wish you were, too.

Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.

There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?