You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.
There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally fewer people inside the hospital who were seriously sick. There wa...
I think I’d like to live like a vegetable and make no important decisions. What kind of vegetable, Danby? A cucumber or a carrot. What kind of cucumber? A good one or a bad one? Oh, a good one, of cou...
First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do," Dunbar told him. "Why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?
[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
Who's they? He wanted to know. Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?Every one of them, Yossarian told him.Every one of whom?Every one of whom do you think?I haven't any idea.Then ho...
Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right...
It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
Insanity is contagious.
I frequently feel I'm being taken advantage of merely because I'm asked to do the work I'm paid to do.
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of som...
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
When I was a kid, I used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek.I threw the book down. It was impossible to read anything with a guy like Orr around you.Why? I finally...
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage....
Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.