Mccarthy

Famous quotes containing the word mccarthy:

    Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    A wholly materialistic city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world’s unconscious, a miser’s glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)