All Clive James Quotes
- The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations. Class
- A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all. All
- Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. America
- All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness. All
- When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at… Able
- Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. Afraid
- Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right. Balls
- Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. Blamed
- All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. All
- The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. Belittle
- The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB Alcoholic
- In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at… Bob
- Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. Boring
- All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the… All
- Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything -… Already Living
- A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds. Bbc
- As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she… Almost Unemployable
- Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what… Among
- Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire. Fire
- The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone… America
- In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having… America
- "Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty.… Accurate
- An education without a Bible education is no education. Bible
- Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth,… American
- Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess. Apache