--- title: "1 Knew Old Quotes By Arthur Phillips" description: "1 Knew Old quotes by Arthur Phillips. Plus more from Arthur Phillips and more Knew Old sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c81/arthur-phillips-19254_talkies_no-one-ever-knew-they-were-old-fashioned_811451.jpg" --- > [“No one ever knew they were old-fashioned; everyone always thought they were up-to-the-minute: Rickety Model T cars weren't rickety when they were invented, scratchy radio wasn't scratchy until television, and silent movies weren't a feeble precursor of talkies until there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/no-one-ever-knew-they-were-old-fashioned-everyone-always-thought-they/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c81/arthur-phillips-19254_talkies_no-one-ever-knew-they-were-old-fashioned_811451.jpg) ## More by Arthur Phillips > [“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/you-deicde-and-you-make-our-night-what-you-want-brilliant-and-ours/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/the-memoir-industry-is-what-s-the-word-under-regulated-i-think-it/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer, the man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/who-ever-loved-that-loved-not-at-first-sight-wrote-marlowe-the-man/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [“Offstage, she fixed him in place with compliments and ironic bossiness, and he tended not to look at her at all when they spoke.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/offstage-she-fixed-him-in-place-with-compliments-and-ironic-bossiness/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [“All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists - for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/all-of-this-vain-heartbreak-that-we-cling-to-as-important-or-tragic/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/he-fell-in-love-with-manhattan-s-skyline-like-a-first-time-brothel/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/it-would-be-hard-to-exaggerate-ernest-hemingway-s-influence-over/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [“How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/how-strangely-distributed-are-our-scruples-when-they-are-evenly/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/i-do-worry-that-it-s-impossible-to-write-something-original-that/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/i-m-an-aesthetic-empiricist-if-you-like-something-it-doesn-t-matter/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [“He considered her ruthless, in his moments of pain, but also in moments of happiness, experienced mere feet from her but bound right wrist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/he-considered-her-ruthless-in-his-moments-of-pain-but-also-in-moments/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [“She had burned through a fair sampling of manhood trying to find someone, not to make her "happy" - that wasn't the point -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/she-had-burned-through-a-fair-sampling-of-manhood-trying-to-find/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [“No one ever knew they were old-fashioned; everyone always thought they were up-to-the-minute: Rickety Model T cars weren't rickety when they were invented, scratchy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/no-one-ever-knew-they-were-old-fashioned-everyone-always-thought-they/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/fiction-is-able-to-do-one-thing-better-than-any-other-art-form-it-is/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) > [Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-phillips/write-enjoy-writing-then-and-only-then-worry-about-the-business-end/) [Arthur Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-phillips/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knew-old/arthur-phillips/#itemlist", "name": "1 Knew Old Quotes By Arthur Phillips", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“No one ever knew they were old-fashioned; everyone always thought they were up-to-the-minute: Rickety Model T cars weren't rickety when they were invented, scratchy radio wasn't scratchy until television, and silent movies weren't a feeble precursor of talkies until there were talkies. 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