The Best Man Vidal Quotes

#1. Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.

Edmund White

#2. Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

Gore Vidal

#3. In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

Gore Vidal

#4. Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.

Gore Vidal

#5. London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

Lapo Elkann

#6. Some people bounced back from a train wreck and some people couldn't get over a bee sting.

Amy Bloom

#7. To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

Gore Vidal

#8. Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

Truman Capote

#9. The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.

Gore Vidal

#10. Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

Gore Vidal

#11. Like I'd let you captain me.

Courtney Summers

#12. There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

Nellie Melba

#13. He now new a number of people but none well. It was easier to have sex with a man than to acquire a friend.

Gore Vidal

#14. By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Gore Vidal

#15. Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we
the white race
have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

Gore Vidal

#16. Quit that chatter you block head and do my bidding.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

Gore Vidal

#18. For a man to successful, not only must he succeed but his friends must also fail.

Gore Vidal

#19. It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.

Gore Vidal

#20. do not sleep enough, the body produces more of Ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite,

Jyothi Shenoy

#21. Is it not better for a man never to have been born?"
"Certaintly not" The response was brisk. "Just to be able to study the sky is reason enough to be alive."
"Unfortunately, I can't see the sky."
"Then listen to music.

Gore Vidal

#22. Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

Robert Mankoff

#23. It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.

Gore Vidal

#24. It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

Gore Vidal

#25. I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

Jay Parini

#26. Finally, what I really want is to be happy in this moment, where the magic and miracles happen. Stay in the moment and all gifts are added as you breathe and take inspired action.

Joe Vitale

#27. Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

Gore Vidal

#28. A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Steve Harvey