51 Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey

With professionals she was professional: she concentrated on looking unimpressed.

Women cannot always flow, and even when they do, they well up slowly, while men are quick as torrents - they are primed by nature to burst forth at different times... the twenty-minute gap, the abyss between the sexes.

Another person's ego is the most exquisite of delicacies, king's caviar - those who taste it can never resist it.

Oh God,' he groaned. 'I'd almost forgotten! What a relief it was when I stopped worrying about being good!

A man's virtues, it seems to me, are his abilities, and his vices are his deficiencies.

I submit that anyone who is trying to explain one thing in terms of something else has nothing important to say.

The good conscience of the wicked rest on all the villainies they refrain form committing.

The dream of a crook is a man with a dream.

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.