Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image ““Like the rest of us, Constantius was many men in the body of one.”” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The man attempted to salute and Renius forced himself to smile, biting back his temper at the sloppy manners. He watched the fat figure… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
“I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much, He is a great observer, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Like men of his kind, at cross-purposes with their purpose, there could be nothing fortuitous that happened to him.” — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
“All of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“He is a man like any other… he will become what he will become, out of the force of his person and the accident… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“He had no particular character, having always depended on his position in society to give him position among men.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
