Augustus Quote by Larry McMurtry “A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae” — Larry McMurtry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Augustus Cheat Enough Gus Men Poke Want
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Any man who was fool enough to fall for a simper, a faint and an 'Oh how wonderful you are!' wasn't worth having. But… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“someone did better than you because they didn’t follow a rule and were not caught. And you do not want to be the person… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the Persians finally overran the Spartans, I looked over at Augustus again. Even though the good guys had just lost, Augustus seemed downright” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Based on my perspective of him, man's men do not cheat. They get jazzed just by being manly.” — Wendy Plump Copy Share Image
“Gus doesn’t belong in this world. He was born with a Hollywood chin, a butter touch, and an ear that can hear rhythms tapped out from Neptune. In another life he would have been drumming in Johnny Carson’s band, drinking water out of a mug. But in this one he has a disease and he can’t say no to shysters… — Marie-Helene Bertino Copy Share
Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
“All the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He, Sir, that… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Friends, romans, countrymen lend me your ears i want to burry ceasar but not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them the good is often entered their their bones if it were so then let it be with ceasar.” — julius ceasar Copy Share
“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough to know how it works. I'm sorry you crossed the line, though." Jake's momentary optimism had passed, and he felt tired and despairing. He would have liked a good bed in a whorehouse and a nice… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“. . . he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that,… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge." Then he will be… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go… — John Green Copy Share Image
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Six times during my life has this tomb of my soul led me to the brink of that eternal darkness into which all men… — John Williams Copy Share Image
According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“His excitement was adorable. I couldn't resist. I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. -Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault In Our Stars” — John Green Copy Share
He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] — Suetonius Copy Share Image
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