Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
DICK CAVETTAnything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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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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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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