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Terence Rattigan
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“Kenneth: If you’re so hot, you'd better tell me how to say she has ideas above her station. Brian: Oh, yes, I forgot. It's fairly easy, old boy. Elle a des idées au-dessus de sa gare.”
Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: French Without Tears, Act I. (1937).
“When you're between any kind of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.”
Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Deep Blue Sea, Act I. (1952).
“Let us invent a character, a nice respectable, middle-class, middle-aged, maiden lady, with time on her hands and the money to help her pass it. She enjoys pictures, books, music, and the theatre and though to none of these arts (or rather, for consistency's sake, to none of these three arts and the one craft) does she bring much knowledge or discernment, at least, as she is apt to tell her cronies, she "does know what she likes". Let us call her Aunt Edna.”
Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953) vol. 1, p. xi.
“A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.”
Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Journal-American, October 29, 1956.
“Do you know what le vice Anglais – the English vice – really is? Not flagellation, not pederasty – whatever the French believe it to be. It's our refusal to admit to our emotions. We think they demean us, I suppose.”
Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Praise of Love, Act II. (1973).