Melanie Phillips Quotes

#1. I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

M.F.K. Fisher

#2. No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

Melanie Phillips

#3. One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one."
"Always?" I ask.
"Always!" she confirms. "Good stories teach!

Camron Wright

#4. 'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs' ... One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

Scott Turow

#5. A continuum links peaceful law-abiding ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.

Melanie Phillips

#6. I didn't know whether this Mr. Smyth was behaving like white people, or if it just showed something vile about all people.

Sue Monk Kidd

#7. Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries has swallowed wholesale the lies and distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, man-hating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy 'research'.

Melanie Phillips

#8. Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want.

Graham Roberts

#9. The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

Melanie Phillips

#10. Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.

Melanie Phillips

#11. It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.

Peter Morgan

#12. With the flat smile of the deeply inconvenienced.

Martin Amis

#13. The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

Richard Matheson

#14. Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

Melanie Phillips

#15. Climate ... models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology.

Melanie Phillips

#16. I like peace and solitude and silence.

Carla Bruni

#17. After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

Melanie Phillips

#18. Islamophobia,' the thought-crime that seeks to suppress legitimate criticism of Islam and demonise those who would tell the truth about Islamist aggression.

Melanie Phillips

#19. You were a furious bull
and I was a china shop
with beautiful red curtains.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#20. It was a good day to die.I was in love. The house was clean

Dawn Downey