Penelope Gilliatt Quotes

#1. Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

Penelope Gilliatt

#2. Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.

Penelope Gilliatt

#3. Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity?
Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.

Penelope Gilliatt

#4. Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ...

Penelope Gilliatt

#5. Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

Penelope Gilliatt

#6. God always exalts the humble.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

Penelope Gilliatt

#8. Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Elvis Presley

#9. We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.

Alex Campbell

#10. Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Marco Pierre White

#11. The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

Penelope Gilliatt

#12. People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

Penelope Gilliatt

#13. Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

Penelope Gilliatt

#14. The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.

Gail Carriger

#15. [On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Penelope Gilliatt

#16. Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather.

Meghan Daum

#17. On land, every animal larger than a cat seems to have died out.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#18. In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Tom Stoppard

#19. How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

Thomas S. Monson

#20. You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.

Stephen Kendrick

#21. There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

Soren Kierkegaard

#22. the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. [On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it ...

Penelope Gilliatt

#24. A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

Penelope Gilliatt

#25. It [humor] inhabits the marginal.

Penelope Gilliatt

#26. I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!

Brian Regan