20th century

Explore 4282 quotes from the 20th century

Sort

It's the little differences. I mean they got the same shit over there that they got here, but it's just—it's just there it's a little different.

Pulp Fiction

Watch Pulp Fiction at Amazon Watch Pulp Fiction at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Pulp Fiction. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, A Band Apart/Jersey Films, 1994.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

I'm not conceited-I'm convinced!

Little Richard

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Little Richard. The Arsenio Hall Show, written by Steven Alan Green, Paramount Domestic Television, 1990.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, "I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable."

Seinfeld

Watch Season 5 of Seinfeld at Amazon Watch Season 5 of Seinfeld at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

"The Pilot." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Peter Mehlman, directed by Tom Cherones, season 4, episode 23, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1993.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

The Feminine Mystique

Buy The Feminine Mystique at Amazon Buy The Feminine Mystique at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. W. W. Norton & Company, 1963, ch. 14.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Medium rare. Hmmm...an aristocrat.

Goodfellas

Watch Goodfellas at Amazon Watch Goodfellas at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Goodfellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Warner Bros., 1990.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it.

Spartacus

Watch Spartacus at Amazon Watch Spartacus at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Spartacus. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Bryna Productions, 1960.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Buy Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus at Amazon Buy Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung [Logical-Philosophical Treatise]." Annalen der Naturphilosophie [Annales of Natural Philosophy], 1921.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by Michael Beaney. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, 1972, ch. 5.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

George Orwell

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Orwell, George. Review of Letters From India, by Mulk Raj Anand. Tribune, 19 Mar. 1943.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

You ever feel like nothin' good was ever gonna happen to you?

Christopher Moltisanti

The Sopranos

Watch Season 1 of The Sopranos at Amazon Watch Season 1 of The Sopranos at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

"The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti." The Sopranos, written by Frank Renzulli and David Chase, directed by Tim Van Patten, season 1, episode 8, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 1999.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward!

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz

Watch The Wizard of Oz at Amazon Watch The Wizard of Oz at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously.

Theodore Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt

Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon

Read this speech at UVA's Miller Center website

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1905, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whisky. Whiskey is a slap on the back and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes.

The Philadelphia Story

Watch The Philadelphia Story at Amazon Watch The Philadelphia Story at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

The Philadelphia Story. Directed by George Cukor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing", and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself and it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Watch Breakfast at Tiffany's at Amazon Watch Breakfast at Tiffany's at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Breakfast at Tiffany's. Directed by Blake Edwards, Jurow-Shepherd/Spinel Entertainment, 1961.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Buy The Great Gatsby at Amazon Buy The Great Gatsby at Amazon

Read The Great Gatsby at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 9.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

Stagecoach

Watch Stagecoach at Amazon Watch Stagecoach at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Stagecoach. Directed by John Ford, Walter Wanger Productions, 1939.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Medium

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Einstein, Albert. Conference in New York City. Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life. 9 Sept. 1940-11 Sept. 1940, New York City, NY, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.