Denis Quotes
Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you!
Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.
The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.
Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup — that's it.
Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.
Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.
The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.
Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against...Christ.
Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.
What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.