Julian Critchley Quotes

#1. Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

Julian Critchley

#2. One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

James Agee

#3. The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

Samuel Johnson

#4. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

#5. She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.

Julian Critchley

#6. And then I started thinking about my brother. Every time I felt sad, I thought about him.

Anonymous

#7. Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

Julian Critchley

#8. I had faith, and if I had faith I couldn't worry.

Gena Showalter

#9. Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

Larry Hagman

#10. Oy?" he asked. "Will you say goodbye?"
Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. "I, Ake," he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same.

Stephen King

#11. Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.

Julian Critchley

#12. As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

Julian Critchley

#13. For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan