Christopher Buckley famous quotes

05-18-2025

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Arguing #Argument
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
-- Christopher Buckley

#Awful #Disaster #Prelude
Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Oil #Satan
I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something so completely untrue, as opposed to the little amateur fibs I was already practiced at -- horrid little apprentice sinner that I was --like the ones about you'd already said your prayers or washed under the fingernails. Yes, I was impressed. I too must learn to say these gorgeous untruths. Imaginary kings and queens would be my houseguests when I was older.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Queens #Kings #Prayer
Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Vacancy #Temperature #Court
And each year now we know more, but we know no better â€” what we see in the sky is simply the softened gloss of the past sifting back to us, and likewise, every atom down the bodyâ€™s shining length was inside a star, and will be again.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Stars #Past #Years
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Language #English Language
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
-- Christopher Buckley

#Grateful #Writing #Cutting
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Reading #Men #Giving
I think that every man is afraid of his wife.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Men #Thinking #Wife
Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?
-- Christopher Buckley

#Needs #Internet #Evidence
Who knew, in 2000, that compassionate conservatism meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Philosophy #Government #Cells
E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Mail #Herpes
I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.
-- Christopher Buckley

#House #Done #Republican
The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Time Zones #Brain #President
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.
-- Christopher Buckley

#Rivers #Parent #Rooms

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