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> [People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/people-in-a-temper-often-say-a-lot-of-silly-terrible-things-they-mean/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

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## More by Penelope Gilliatt

> [Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/rosalia-is-dressed-in-raven-clothes-forty-years-too-old-for-her-so/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/the-masters-of-the-comic-spirit-are-often-our-prophets/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [Funniness is the wild card in the pack.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/funniness-is-the-wild-card-in-the-pack/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [ \[On John Cleese:\] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/on-john-cleese-he-sometimes-seems-to-swat-at-his-own-thoughts-as-if/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/movies-have-now-reached-the-same-stage-as-sex-it-s-all-technique-and/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/people-in-a-temper-often-say-a-lot-of-silly-terrible-things-they-mean/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [ \[On Watermelon Man:\] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/on-watermelon-man-it-is-impossible-to-look-at-this-film-without-its/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/prague-is-like-a-vertical-venice-steps-everywhere/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/jokes-are-ideally-pleasurable-they-are-an-act-of-assassination/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/why-is-it-that-beautiful-women-never-seem-to-have-curiosity-is-it/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [Great comedy calls large matters into question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/great-comedy-calls-large-matters-into-question/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/black-and-white-are-the-most-ravishing-colors-of-all-in-film/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/a-satirist-often-in-danger-himself-has-the-bravery-of-knowing-that-to/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

> [ It \[humor\] inhabits the marginal. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-gilliatt/it-humor-inhabits-the-marginal/)

[Penelope Gilliatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-gilliatt/)

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