"I love insult, it's always honest." — Joyce Carol Oates

"I love insult, it's always honest."

— Joyce Carol Oates

Always Honest Quotes Honest Quotes I Love Quotes Inspirational Quotes Insult Quotes Love Quotes

312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

See all 312 quotes by Joyce Carol Oates »

More Always Honest Quotes

This quote is filed under Always Honest Quotes, one of 7 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not — Anne Heche
I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have… — Tim Soutphommasane
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity,… — Verghese Kurien
So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I… — Sarah Dessen
Naked is always honest, her hands all over my privates. lost in the mood — Kid Cudi

See all 7 Always Honest Quotes »