891 Quotes by William Faulkner

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

(...) next year she would have another birthday, and if she just remembered to get into bed left foot first and to turn the pillow over before she went to sleep, who knows what might happen?

I guess maybe a talking man hasn't got the time to ever learn much about anything except words.

Again. Sadder than was. Again. Saddest of all. Again.

I suppose the question to ask you, is where you been all the time you were dead?

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

Time? Time? Why worry about something that takes care of itself so well? You were born with the habit of consuming time. Be satisfied with that.

...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.