CL Bennett Quotes

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

The moment you're born you're done for.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.

The era of a Palestinian state is over.

Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

People are fed up with the various camps, they want to unite.

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

Being a husband is a whole-time job.