Inspirational Quotes by Clive James

Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.

— Clive James

My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and…

— Clive James

The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London…

— Clive James

In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose…

— Clive James

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

— Clive James

I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write…

— Clive James

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it…

— Clive James

A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.

— Clive James

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

— Clive James

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

— Clive James

“Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked By various diseases of the intellect Or failing body. How am I still upright?…

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A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

— Clive James

The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.

— Clive James

“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house…

— Clive James

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

— Clive James