#wit

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#anybody #basically #caught #consider #fair

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#advertising #brokerage #business #cannot #constructive

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi. ↗

— Joan Collins

#being #happy #i #life #limelight

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#country #end #few #few things #many

The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#best #daughter #expecting #fact #humor

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#attacks #breaking #granite #hard #itself

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#approach #ashore #completely #dispatched #doubt

Writing has never been a driving force within me. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#driving #driving force #force #me #never

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. ↗

— Marquis de Condorcet

#comparing #enjoy #life #own #without

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? ↗

— Confucius

#beasts #distinguish #feelings #respect #without