Penelope Gilliatt famous quotes

04-24-2025

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

#Beautiful #Jobs #People
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

#Years #Ravens #Clothes
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Bees #Sometimes
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Knowing #Bravery #Satire
Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Movie #Black And White #Color
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Movie #Sex #Feelings
Funniness is the wild card in the pack.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Humor #Cards #Packs
It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Humor
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

#Humor #Comedy #Moments
The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Humor #Spirit #Comedy
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Anger #Silly #Mean
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Venice #Steps #Prague
Great comedy calls large matters into question.
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Matter #Comedy #Great Comedy
[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it ...
-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Men #Giving #Insane

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