People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share
[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished… — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share
