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.

Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

P. J. O'Rourke

The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

P. J. O'Rourke

Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

P. J. O'Rourke

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.

I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.

P. J. O'Rourke

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

P. J. O'Rourke

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

P. J. O'Rourke

My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.

My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.

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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