Top 200 Quotes by Gore Vidal

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.

Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.