All Clive James Quotes
- Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff. Chalk
- First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. Art
- I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates...… Behaved
- Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen. Amy
- One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it. Capable
- I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free… Believe
- Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine? Classic
- The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas. Apart
- She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny. Beautiful
- I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. Assumption
- Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. Civilize
- As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks Art
- Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been… Amused
- Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been… Act
- The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some… Adelaide
- Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a condom full of walnuts.... Arnold
- If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory,… Advocates
- How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral… Air
- The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag. Bag
- You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty. Anyone