Failure Quote by George Eliot

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which…

— George Eliot

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

— Octavio Paz

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

— Harold Ramis

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

— Tom Stoppard

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the…

— Lloyd Kaufman

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it…

— Rebecca Solnit

More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree -…

— Billy Collins

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.

— Dario Argento

I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it,…

— Neil Marshall

Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.

— Josh Peck

Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it's nice…

— Chris Chibnall