A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling. - Penelope Gilliatt
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.
- Penelope Gilliatt
Funniness is the wild card in the pack. - Penelope Gilliatt
Funniness is the wild card in the pack.
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. - Penelope Gilliatt
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 j… - Penelope Gilliatt
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 j…
It [humor] inhabits the marginal. - Penelope Gilliatt
It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
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
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything po… - Penelope Gilliatt
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything po…
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean. - Penelope Gilliatt
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees. - Penelope Gilliatt
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.
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