Gore Vidal Quotes
Most popular Gore Vidal Quotes
![A good deed never goes unpunished. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/38/19438A-a-good-deed-never-goes-unpunished-gore-vidal.png)
A good deed never goes unpunished.
![Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/60/19160A-litigation-takes-the-place-of-sex-at-middle-age-gore-vidal.png)
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
![A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/80/36380A-a-narcissist-is-someone-better-looking-than-you-are-gore-vidal.png)
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
![At full strength, wit is rage made bearable, and useful. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/26/42126A-at-full-strength-wit-is-rage-made-bearable-useful-gore-vidal.png)
At full strength, wit is rage made bearable, and useful.
![I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/80/43180A-i-never-miss-a-chance-to-have-sex-or-appear-gore-vidal.png)
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
![Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/25/19525A-whenever-a-friend-succeeds-a-little-something-me-dies-gore-vidal.png)
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
![There is something about a bureaucrat that doesn't like a poem. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/09/27509A-there-is-something-about-a-bureaucrat-that-doesnt-like-poem-gore-vidal.png)
There is something about a bureaucrat that doesn't like a poem.
![For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/70/22770A-for-certain-people-after-fifty-litigation-takes-place-sex-gore-vidal.png)
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
![Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/65/24265A-style-is-knowing-who-you-are-what-you-want-say-gore-vidal.png)
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
![Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/87/31087A-writing-fiction-has-become-a-priestly-business-countries-that-have-gore-vidal.png)
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
![Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt. One's family. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/00/30900A-before-the-cards-that-one-is-dealt-by-life-are-gore-vidal.png)
Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt. One's family.
![Is there another word in the English language quite so useful, so hopeful, so truly pregnant as "yet"? - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/52/42852A-is-there-another-word-in-the-english-language-quite-so-gore-vidal.png)
Is there another word in the English language quite so useful, so hopeful, so truly pregnant as "yet"?
![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 quote.](/img/q/11/26511A-the-creation-of-a-work-of-art-like-act-love-gore-vidal.png)
The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small "yes" at the center of a vast "no."
![As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/31/34331A-as-societies-grow-decadent-the-language-grows-decadent-too-words-gore-vidal.png)
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.
![A satirist is a man profoundly revolted by the society in which he lives. His rage takes the form of wit, ridicule, mockery. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/91/39191A-a-satirist-is-a-man-profoundly-revolted-by-society-which-gore-vidal.png)
A satirist is a man profoundly revolted by the society in which he lives. His rage takes the form of wit, ridicule, mockery.
![I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/52/24752A-i-am-an-obsessive-rewriter-doing-one-draft-then-another-gore-vidal.png)
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.
![I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/66/38266A-i-suspect-that-our-own-faith-psychiatry-will-seem-as-gore-vidal.png)
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.
![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 quote.](/img/q/55/27155A-to-a-man-ornithologists-are-tall-slender-bearded-so-that-gore-vidal.png)
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.
![Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/49/25849A-altruism-is-a-brief-phase-through-which-some-adolescents-must-gore-vidal.png)
Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.
![Questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/26/38426A-questioning-what-seem-to-be-the-absurd-beliefs-another-group-gore-vidal.png)
Questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.
![Our time's first satirist is Evelyn Waugh. For thirty years his savagery and wit have given pleasure and alarm. His mixed dish is . . . all set down in a prose so chaste that at times one longs for a violation of syntax to suggest that its creator is fallible, or at least part American. - Gore Vidal quote.](/img/q/18/42718A-our-times-first-satirist-is-evelyn-waugh-thirty-years-his-gore-vidal.png)
Our time's first satirist is Evelyn Waugh. For thirty years his savagery and wit have given pleasure and alarm. His mixed dish is . . . all set down in a prose so chaste that at times one longs for a violation of syntax to suggest that its creator is fallible, or at least part American.