Hugh Quotes

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

They must be doing something right up there in Canada.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

Confusion and mistakes come when we forget the importance of God's word as our unwavering guide.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

I'm fortunate in that I don't think I've ever fallen in love with somebody who hasn't fallen in love with me. I actually think it's quite rare that that happens, in a true way.