Explain Quotes

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

~ Oscar Wilde

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

~ Bob Uecker

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

~ Lucy Larcom

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

~ Donald Kagan

We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

~ Brad Pitt

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

~ Georges Braque

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

~ Stanley Baldwin

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Never complain and never explain.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

~ Benjamin Jowett

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

~ Jonathan Galassi