L Helmsley Quotes & Sayings

I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me. — Leona Helmsley

Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman. — Leona Helmsley

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes. — Leona Helmsley

The night comes stealing o'er me,
And clouds are on the sea;
While the wavelets rustle before me
With a mystical melody. — Heinrich Heine

Sir Helmsley imparted this information in a loud, almost challenging voice, as he always did when he had to communicate anything unexpected or difficult to account for. Explaining was a nuisance, and somewhat of a derogation. He resented anything that made it necessary, and always spoke as if his interlocutor ought to have known beforehand the answer to the questions he was putting. — Edith Wharton

Hey, get a nice shot of the brand-new Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley! — Triple H

X-Pac, I feel terrible that you have to come out here and defend the integrity of a woman who has absolutely none. I mean as far as Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley is concerned the word honor means jump on her and stay on her. Well, let's spell that word H-O-N-O-R. I guess Stephanie is half of that. After all she is a filthy, dirty, disgusting, brutal, skanky, bottom feeding trash bog H-O. And no amount of defending will ever, EVER change that! — Chris Jericho

We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes. — Leona Helmsley

Cause you know, we live in different time, me in your yesterday, you in my tomorrow. — Changdictator

A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel. — Fiona Helmsley

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment. — Leona Helmsley

Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape. — Laird Barron

I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't. — Jack Bauer

There's nothing deader than a dead love. — Leona Helmsley

I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people. — Leona Helmsley

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it. — Beilby Porteus

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Your first druggy relationship is a rite of passage. A learning experience with a curve. After that one, the next one, if there is a next one, will be a decision. You will know just what you are getting into. — Fiona Helmsley

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim. — Ian Anderson

I thought I wanted to be degraded, but I wanted to be degraded with love. You wanted me to talk during sex and what came out was, "You hate me. — Fiona Helmsley

Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is. — David Letterman

I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike. — Leona Helmsley

If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her. — Leona Helmsley

You tripped over my baggage, when it could have been easily navigated by more agile feet. — Fiona Helmsley