Top 8 Philip Hensher Quotes
#1. Depressing realization sets in. Writing was invented not by human beings but by accountants. Most of the early writing systems are records of how much crap people own, how much money they have, how much money they owe, and other lowering/boastful facts of human life.
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#2. It's material deprivation that starts all this off."
"They've got dishwashers, Miranda," Billa said. "They're not examples of material deprivation.
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#3. Why do we say 'the cockles of your heart'?" David said. "Nothing to do with whelks, I suppose.
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#4. Previously, gay life had seemed a merry series of cabinet reshuffles and rearrangements, in which everyone was single for a time, then paired off for a time. If you stood still with a welcoming smile on your face, sooner or later somebody would come over and sit on it.
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#5. I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.
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#6. It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.
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#7. Something very unusual, a chocolate-flavoured log of goats' cheese. "Made by lesbians in Wales," Sam had explained superfluously.
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#8. If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.
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