Books Quote by Philip Roth

“I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a lousy book.”

— Charles Bukowski

What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great…

— Simon Hoggart

“Where is the absolution of religion now? Morality is not negotiable, Hensley. Unleashing a war machine in order to end a war? An absurd…

— Hazel Woods

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

— Tariq Ali

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and…

— Matt Ridley

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

— Javier Marías

“If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] ”

— Estelle Jussim

“The idea of spilling blood for the sake of oil would have seemed ludicrous.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous…

— Andrew Solomon

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and…

— Aldous Huxley

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger