Roger Peyrefitte quotes

Roger Peyrefitte quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.”
-- Roger Peyrefitte

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“I love the lambs, not the sheep.”
-- Roger Peyrefitte

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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”
“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”
“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”
“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”
“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
“I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.”
“By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Never lose hope,because ALLAH is always by your side.”

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