Peter O'Toole Quotes

What I like is bottomless flattery.

Peter O'Toole

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• But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Lies

• Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Poetry
  • English
  • Modern

• When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Up

• You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Long
  • Ifs

• I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Pain

• We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Education
  • Single
  • Economic

• The best part about it was that we were rationed on water (during combat); we could only have so much.

  

  Bob Hayes
  • Water
  • Combat

• If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Achieve

• As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Ambitious

• If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Cost
  • Rate
  • Inflation

• I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Talent
  • Possess

• For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Mankind
  • Satisfied
  • Majority

• Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.

  

  Alexandre Borovik
  • Act
  • Acceptance
  • Activity

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Enough
  • Imagine
  • Application

• I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Interesting
  • Flattery
  • Copyright

• I reiterated again that if there is a large dollar number, and an agreement, talk to us, because we have to appropriate that money.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Money
  • Agreement
  • Appropriate

• What I like is bottomless flattery.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Flattery