460 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.

In Western Australia they don’t even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what’s good for people than people do is a swine.

One thing talk can’t accomplish is communication. This is because everybody’s talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying.

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.