Terence Rattigan Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment

Nido R. Qubein

#3. My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.

Adam Driver

#4. death struggle had been a grievous one. On

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Terence Rattigan

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

Terence Rattigan

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Here is the topography of false starts. Here
a whole constellation is lousy with desire.
Here what passes for love is the same
as anywhere. Here no one has said
a prayer for the stars, and here no one
comes, except to leave, except to stay
long enough to bruise.

Paul Guest

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

Terence Rattigan

#12. I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

Natalie Cole

#13. It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.

Maureen O'Sullivan