Advice Quotes
Shakespeare and Alexander Pope tie for the most entries, with Charles Churchill, La Rochefoucauld and Franklin behind. The dependable sourced lines are the cynical ones. Wilde, in An Ideal Husband (1895), says he always passes on good advice because it is never of any use to oneself, and Bierce, in 1911, defines advice as the smallest current coin. Disraeli’s definition of critics, in Lothair (1870), as men who have failed in literature and art is filed here too.
Flagged: “Many receive advice, few profit by it,” credited to Publilius Syrus and disputed; “Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain,” credited to Tom Stoppard, and “When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice,” credited to Saul Bellow, both marked misattributed.
I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
I beg you listen to this advice —
When you get wine, be sure to drink it.
Giving laughter is more fun than giving advice. Giving laughter while giving advice is the jackpot.
I would like to thank John Garnett for a lot of very helpful advice.
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way.