"A person who is keen to shake your……" — Alec Guinness
"A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve."
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Alec Guinness
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16 Quotes by Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness has 16 quotes on this site.
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
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I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
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That's no moon. It's a space station
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Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the…
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I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.
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Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are…
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The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
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An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world…
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Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
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An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on…
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against…
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is…
— Charles Babbage
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As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it…
— Joe Baca
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Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we…
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