Quote by Dennis Potter

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

— Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please…

— Dennis Potter

“My only regret is to die four pages too soon.”

— Dennis Potter

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

— Dennis Potter

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

— Dennis Potter

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and…

— Dennis Potter

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

— Dennis Potter

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

— Dennis Potter

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

— Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

— Dennis Potter

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

— Dennis Potter