Conquered people tend to be witty.

Quote by Saul Bellow

Topics: Witty Quotes

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them...

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night...

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between...

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put...

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a...

A man is only as good as what he loves

A man is only as good as what he loves

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever......

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more...

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You...

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business...

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen...

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen...

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.