The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Quote by Orson Welles
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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Orson Welles Quotes
- A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
- Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
- The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
- Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
- I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
- I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
- Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
- Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
- We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Best Quotes
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
- Money: power at its most liquid.
- I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
- People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
- You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
- My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.