Alan Titchmarsh Quotes

#1. If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

David Mamet

#2. I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

Donald Pleasence

#3. You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

Alan Titchmarsh

#4. There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

Kendall Schmidt

#5. Oh, and I have to mention one lady who does all of my book covers in cross stitch and frames them. Muriel. She's amazing. I just received one for my latest, Love And Dr Devon, actually. It's very sweet of her to do it.

Alan Titchmarsh

#6. I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Henry James

#7. I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

Alan Titchmarsh

#8. People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never stuck as you're docked in a different port every day.

Alan Titchmarsh

#9. I get up to 400 letters a week, so I have a full-time PA, but I try to answer everything. People don't seem to realise that if they send something living in the post it's going to die on the way. Especially when you wrap it in a polythene bag.

Alan Titchmarsh

#10. I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.

Alan Titchmarsh

#11. Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

Alan Titchmarsh

#12. I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything.

Alan Titchmarsh

#13. I get nice letters, but really I have no idea. I just try to enthuse people. You've been married for 31 years.

Alan Titchmarsh

#14. Julia Roberts was really rather lovely. I had to interview her on Pebble Mill At One years ago. You learn not to be starstruck if you're trying to get a decent interview out of someone. If you fall apart it's counter productive.

Alan Titchmarsh

#15. I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.

Alan Titchmarsh

#16. I'm a big fan of the Queen. She carries herself well, as does the Prince of Wales, despite getting lots of stick.

Alan Titchmarsh

#17. I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.

Alan Titchmarsh

#18. Alan Bennett and Judi Dench are amazingly talented people who don't let you down when you meet them.

Alan Titchmarsh

#19. I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

Helen Mirren

#20. Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!

Alan Titchmarsh

#21. The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

Tullian Tchividjian

#22. It's never much fun at school - it's just dates. Then as you get older, for some reason, you get more interested.

Alan Titchmarsh

#23. Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

Miguel De Cervantes

#24. Conservatives felt victimized by a sort of radicalism that, because it graced Middle American classrooms, did not seem radical to most Americans at all.

Rick Perlstein

#25. It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.

John Boyne

#26. I'll know coffee works without cream and sugar when I see people buying unsweetened bakers chocolate for Valentine's Day.

Kevin Sinnott

#27. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

Veronica Roth

#28. Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

#29. Life. As solid and as strong as a rock one minute, then hanging by a thread the next

Alan Titchmarsh

#30. You stuffing it down his throat isn't going to make him hungry.

Maggie Stiefvater

#31. I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#32. Depends on the evening. A good red wine is nice in cold weather. A Claret or a Rioja. I've got a good gin we make from damson plums. And you can't beat a glass of champagne every now and again.

Alan Titchmarsh

#33. Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.

Alan Titchmarsh

#35. Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Alan Titchmarsh