Top 481 Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

About P. J. O'Rourke

These are some quotes by American author P. J. O'Rourke Comedian, who was born on November 14, 1947.

I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

P. J. O'Rourke

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

P. J. O'Rourke

Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

P. J. O'Rourke

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.

There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.

P. J. O'Rourke

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

P. J. O'Rourke

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

P. J. O'Rourke

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

P. J. O'Rourke

All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

P. J. O'Rourke

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

P. J. O'Rourke

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