Humour Quote by Edward St Aubyn Download Open image ““The best way to contradict him is to let him talk”” — Edward St Aubyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humour
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“If he expects me to talk for the mere sake of talking and showing off, he will find he has addressed himself to the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Speak," he urged. "What about, sir?" "Whatever you like. I leave both the choice of subject and the manner of treating it entirely to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be… — G.M. Young Copy Share Image
“In the silences between his words, listen to what you have to say back. Therein lies his message.” — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“Just because he doesn't want to hear it doesn't mean you shouldn't say it.” — Varian Johnson Copy Share Image
“Stop talking. If you don't know how to speak with your eyes, don't open your mouth.” — Elena Levon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I say terrible things to him because I don't want him to know I'm sad; sometimes I fly off the handle to hide… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“What lies ahead is going to be very difficult,” he started to say, altering his voice. His tone said: We don’t have to speak… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about” — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“law that stated you didn't advertise any event you hadn't attended, any place you'd never been, or any band you didn't really listen to.” — Mhairi McFarlane Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“What if," replied Inspector Fry in the same maddeningly curteous tone, "we were all to construct daisy chains and drape them so as to… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark. "A virgin," sputtered another. "I didn't know they still made them." "He just did.” — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“True, science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“John, let me make one thing clear,” Jim said, cutting me off in his most stern, evangelical voice. “Every man is blessed with his… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Life is like yoga; the only way you can enjoy it is by relaxing into any position you happen to find yourself in.” — Jon Wakeham Copy Share Image
