Quote

Traitors who prevail are patriots usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

Gore Vidal

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
Actor
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Politician
Prosaist
West Point
New York
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Gor Vidal
Cameron Kay
Eugene Luther Vidal
Edgar Box
Katherine Everard
Eugene Vidal
Prevail
Emperor
Patriot
Succeed
Usurpers
Divine
Emperors
Traitors
Patriots
Traitor

More quotes by Gore Vidal

Image
Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
Gore Vidal
Image
Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
Gore Vidal
Image
Since nothing is free, to each his price.
Gore Vidal
Image
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
Image
Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.
Gore Vidal
Image
I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.
Gore Vidal
Image
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
Gore Vidal
Image
I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.
Gore Vidal
Image
The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
Gore Vidal
Image
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
Image
The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
Gore Vidal
Image
USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.
Gore Vidal
Image
I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.
Gore Vidal
Image
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
Gore Vidal
Image
American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
Gore Vidal
Image
I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
Gore Vidal
Image
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Gore Vidal
Image
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.
Gore Vidal
Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.
Gore Vidal
Image
What is a political party but a conspiracy?
Gore Vidal