Clarissa Dickson Wright Quotes

#1. With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

Steven Morrissey

#2. All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#3. By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats - that is, dairy products - were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#4. Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. I will support my party when they are right on an issue, but am not afraid to stand up to party bosses who are not looking out for the best interests of my constituents and our country.

Darlene Senger

#6. Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#7. Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.

John C. Malone

#8. A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. I'm often in a situation that I have to prepare a pudding for surprise guests, only to find that the only thing I have in my cupboard is a box of dried figs.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#10. Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#11. Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

Billy Gardell

#12. Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#13. Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn't much bulkier than a Labrador Dog.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#14. I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.

Felicity Kendal