12 quotes found
“Strange how potent cheap music is.”
“Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.”
“Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.”
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.”
“I don't know what London's coming to the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”
“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
“If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that th...”
“What I adore is supreme professionalism. Im bored by writers who can write only when its raining.”
“Success is far more perilous than failure, isnt it? Youve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.”
“All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.”
“An echo from the past when, innocentWe looked upon the present with delightAnd doubted not the future would be kinderAnd never knew the loneliness of night.”
“The human race is a letdown, Ernest a bad, bad letdown. And Im disgusted with it. It thinks its progressed, but it hasnt. It thinks its risen above the primeval slime, but it hasnt. Its wallowing ...”