top of page

"A committee is an animal with four back legs."

John le Carre, English Writer

55

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A committee is an animal with four back legs."

Exlpore more Committee quotes

"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"

Burt Lancaster, American Actor

"We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems."

Alvar Aalto, Finnish Architect

Committee, Nothing, Problems

"Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee."

Anthony Sampson, British Writer

Committee, Personality

"Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents."

Alberto Gonzales, American Public Servant

Committee, Senate

"They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee."

Allan Sherman, American Musician

Committee, Day, Saying, Witty

"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."

Frank Moore Colby, American Educator

"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."

Alton Brown, American Entertainer

Committee, Feeling

"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee."

F. Lee Bailey, American Lawyer

Committee, Congress, Rights, Today

"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."

Fred Allen, American Comedian

"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."

Anita Hill, American Celebrity

Committee, Information, May

Explore more quotes by John le Carre

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."

"Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that."

"The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat."

"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."

"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."

"Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie."

"History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose."

"A committee is an animal with four back legs."

bottom of page