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Classic Quotes by Clive James
- 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…
- An education without a Bible education is no education.
- Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all…
- Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
- Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.
- A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't
- His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of…
- It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired…
- The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.
- The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of The Spectator…
- Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
- First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate 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...…
- Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.
- 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.
- 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…
- Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?
- 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.
- 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.
- Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
More Classic Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,… — Paul Auster
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed… — Drew Barrymore
- I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on… — Mario Batali
- Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
- A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — W. E. B. Du Bois
- I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end… — Mitch Albom
- People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a… — Louisa May Alcott
- A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino