Dick Cavett Quotes

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

Dick Cavett

The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Dick Cavett

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.

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I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.

Dick Cavett