Top 200 Quotes by Gore Vidal

About Gore Vidal

These are some quotes by American author Gore Vidal Novelist, who lived between October 3, 1925 and July 31, 2012.

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

Gore Vidal

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

Gore Vidal

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

Gore Vidal

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

Gore Vidal

During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.

During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.

Gore Vidal

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'

Gore Vidal

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

Gore Vidal

I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Gore Vidal

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Gore Vidal

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