Philip Quotes
79 quotes by 68 authors
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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes…
— William J. Clinton
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It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
— Lawrence Durrell
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.
— Simon Cowell
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A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare…
— Fady Joudah
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It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to…
— Philip Roth
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Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
— Harold H. Bloomfield
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Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career Id like to emulate.
— Justin Long
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There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like…
— Derek Magyar
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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most…
— Philip Sidney
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I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.
— Steven Strogatz
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
— Joseph Addison
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Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm…
— Samuel Johnson
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We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his…
— Samuel Smiles
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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
— Philip Kearny
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Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'
— Russell Howard
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His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf…
— J. G. Ballard
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Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire…
— Ayn Rand
Who Wrote These Philip Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 79 Philip Quotes, led by these top contributors: