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Penelope Gilliatt
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“It would be unfair to suggest that one of the most characteristic sounds of the English Sunday is the sound of Harold Hobson barking up the wrong tree.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Encore magazine (November–December 1959); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1991), p. 90
“People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Katharine Whitehorn, View from a Column (London: Eyre Methuen, 1981), p. 37
“Filmmaking has now reached the same stage as sex—it’s all technique and no feeling.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion, 9th ed. (London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 143
“Jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Wit: In Celebration of Comedy (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1990), preface
“A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Wit: Skin and Bones of Comedy (New York: Scribner's and Macmillan, 1990), captioning an image of Lenny Bruce
“Boston is one of the few American cities that regrets the past...Boston's like England. Up to its ears in yellowing photographs.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity?" "Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Russians have always been hugely concerned with ethics and hardly at all with conduct.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 24 June 1974 (p. 225)
“Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.”
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 21 June 1977 (p. 277)