"I think there's something degrading about having a……" — Christopher Hampton
"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
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23 Quotes by Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton has 23 quotes on this site.
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I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists…
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Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
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You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie,…
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It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
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I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film,…
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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be…
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If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American…
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You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than…
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I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
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I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have…
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I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is…
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick…
— George Carlin
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and…
— Jean Cocteau
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It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very…
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see…
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the…
— William James
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial…
— Cesare Pavese
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Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may…
— Samuel Smiles
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In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned…
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