Rattigan Quotes

#1. Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan)

Beth Fine

#2. My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#3. February 5: Laurence Olivier, his agent Cecil Tennant, and playwright Terence Rattigan arrive in New York to discuss with Marilyn a film of The Sleeping Prince, to be produced in London with Olivier and Marilyn in the starring roles.

Carl Rollyson

#4. Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

Jack Johnson

#5. Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..

John Betjeman

#6. The salt of his tears tastes like the sea and I don't see the shore.

Ally Condie

#7. Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#8. But the world is a dark enough place for even a little flicker to be welcome.

Terence Rattigan

#9. An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

Michael Shurtleff

#10. It's been so long since I had sex, I can't remember who gets tied up, anymore.

Tony Rattigan

#11. You dickweed! Are you always stupid, or is today a special occasion?

Cherise Sinclair

#12. It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

Terence Rattigan

#13. A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

Terence Rattigan

#14. I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.

Terence Rattigan

#15. To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

Terence Rattigan

#16. Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.

Terence Rattigan

#17. Motivation is temporary. Inspiration is permanent.

Kelly Slater

#18. The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#19. I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

Barry Mann

#20. You've already got everything you need to succeed right in-front of your tits

Runa Magnus

#21. The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

Frank Muir

#22. Apparently he's known as the "King of Selfies," this Instagrammer takes some, um, interesting photos. You'll be laughing the second you land on his page.

Don Blackwell