Rattigan's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

James Weldon Johnson

#4. I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.

Robert Greene

#5. I still get a great buzz from rugby.

Brian O'Driscoll

#6. Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.

Ray Charles

#7. Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music ...

John Taylor

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

Terence Rattigan

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

Tony Rattigan

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.

Richelle Mead

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

Terence Rattigan

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

Terence Rattigan

#16. It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

Washington Irving

#17. Money and success can never make you happy if your heart is closed.

Lucinda Riley

#18. The future projects light, the past only clouds

Eileen Gray

#19. While madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.

Joyce Carol Oates

#20. 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

#21. I promised myself I wouldn't be the first to look away, but I was.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

Dorothy Parker

#23. The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

Bill Gaede