Dennis Potter Quote

I think we should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt. As long as the tenderness is there but also please let some of the contempt be there, because we know what we're like, we know how we hustle and bustle and shove and push, and you sometimes use grand words to cloak it.

Interview with Melvyn Bragg, Channel 4, 5 April 1994

I think we should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt. As long as the tenderness is there but also please let some of the ...

I think we should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt. As long as the tenderness is there but also please let some of the ...

I think we should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt. As long as the tenderness is there but also please let some of the ...

I think we should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt. As long as the tenderness is there but also please let some of the ...