But I Repeat Myself Quotes

#1. I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#2. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

Harry Truman

#3. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#4. I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.

Brad Warner

#5. You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

Rachel McAdams

#6. I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.

Michael Angarano

#7. I want to repeat myself, Mrs. Boisgointier. These are not my children but I thank you as if they were. I will pray for your safety and your ability to assure theirs. Whatever happens, the world will remember you.

Cecile Kaufer

#8. I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals.

Melissa Holbrook Pierson

#9. Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

Robyn Hitchcock

#10. I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.

Elizabeth Banks

#11. I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

C.S. Lewis

#12. I hate having to repeat myself, but sometimes there is really nothing else to say

Dmitry Dyatlov

#13. I'm a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I've invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.

Federico Fellini

#14. How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?

George Berkeley

#15. When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

Otto Preminger

#16. There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

Ole Hallesby

#17. Can't repeat the past? We do it every day. We build a life, or try to, of pleasures and duties that will become routine, so that every day will be the same day, or nearly so, "the day of our life," Randall Jarrell called it.

Adam Gopnik

#18. Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#19. All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Paul Fussell

#20. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or, Don't be.

Margaret Atwood

#21. History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#22. The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

Chris Evans

#23. I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

Benjamin Clementine

#24. Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat - what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen.

Andre Breton

#25. Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brian Eno