The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.
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
It [humor] inhabits the marginal. - Penelope Gilliatt
It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
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…
[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.
Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film. - Penelope Gilliatt
Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.
Funniness is the wild card in the pack. - Penelope Gilliatt
Funniness is the wild card in the pack.
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere. - Penelope Gilliatt
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.
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…
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