Algonquin Table Quotes

#1. In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. We all have our secrets.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

Pearl Cleage

#4. Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?

Melanie Benjamin

#5. Do as you would be done by

Jennifer Dance

#6. It is not important to be a believer, it is not important to be religious, because there are billons around the world already! But it is important to be compassionate, it is important to be ethical, because there are only tens of thousands around the world, obviously not many!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.

Nawal El Saadawi

#8. I admire cool renderings of hot topics.

Kathryn Harrison

#9. URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Dorothy Parker

#11. At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes, the toughest, the coolest - everybody sat at that table. It was like the ghetto Algonquin Round Table. [Comedy] was my entry, my membership card.

John Leguizamo

#12. The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

Tom Spanbauer

#13. Don't be fooled by the few red or brown leaves you find on poison ivy in the fall - the plant is not dying; it's just cheating with different pigments.

Hope Jahren

#14. My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

#15. When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

John F. Kennedy