CL Bennett Quotes

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.

To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.

If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

You always know when you're going to arrive. If you go by car, you don't. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

My films are about embarrassment.

The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.