Christopher Buckley Quotes

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

  Christopher Buckley

  Smoking, Arguing, Argument

  Jason Reitman, Christopher Buckley (2007). “Thank You For Smoking: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• 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

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• Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

  Christopher Buckley

  Needs, Internet, Evidence

  Christopher Buckley (2012). “They Eat Puppies, Don't They?”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

  Christopher Buckley

  Men, Thinking, Wife

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

  Christopher Buckley

  Language, English Language, Essayists

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• 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

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• Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

  Christopher Buckley

  Vacancy, Temperature, Court

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• Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

  Christopher Buckley

  Oil, Satan

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• E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

  Christopher Buckley

  Mail, Herpes

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• And each year now
  we know more, but we know no better —
  what we see in the sky is simply
  the softened gloss of the past sifting
  back to us, and likewise, every atom
  down the body’s shining length
  was inside a star, and will be again.

  Christopher Buckley

  Stars, Past, Years

  Christopher Buckley (1993). “Dark Matter: Poems”, Copper Beech Press

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• 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

  "Let’s quit while we are behind". washingtonmonthly.com. October 1, 2006.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  "Growing Up Buckley" by Christopher Buckley, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 26, 2009.

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• 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

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

  Christopher Buckley

  Time Zones, Brain, President

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