Would Quotes

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any kids and I'm not married, I would have a baby artificially inseminated. I would feel like Mary - like Jesus is my baby.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.