D. O. Flynn Quotes

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

AWWW ON THE MAIL. The mail man delivers, once again!

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

I like the Whisky old an the women young

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

The rest of my life will be devoted to women and litigation

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

a labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

I like my whisky old and my women young.

When you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime.

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

On a good day I write, all day.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.