"You see, I always divide people into two……" — Christopher Hampton
"You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
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23 Quotes by Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists…
- Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
- It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
- I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if…
- I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film,…
- I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
- To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be…
- If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American…
- You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than…
- I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
- I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have…
- I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.