Fatal Quotes
491 quotes by 390 authors
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It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.
— Gustave Courbet
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Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of…
— Guru Gobind Singh
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I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told…
— Robert Clark
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The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the…
— Robert Toombs
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Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a…
— Charles Henry Mackintosh
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PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Success isnt permanent & failure isnt fatal.
— Mike Ditka
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Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the…
— Tom Vanderbilt
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
— Albert Camus
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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
— William Ralph Inge
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Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.
— Fred Allen
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May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this…
— James Madison
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Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with…
— John Quincy Adams
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.…
— Al Franken
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MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
— Annette Funicello
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
— Neil Gaiman
Who Wrote These Fatal Quotes
390 authors contributed a total of 491 Fatal Quotes, led by these top contributors: