Kenneth Quotes

The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Every conflict reflects what each person most needs to learn in that moment.

The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

An entomologist is not a bug.

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.