Terence Rattigan Quotes

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Kenneth: If you're so hot, you'd better tell me how to say she has ideas above her station.
Brian: Oh, yes, I forgot. It's fairly easy, old boy. Elle a des idées au-dessus de sa gare.

Terence Rattigan
I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.

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When you're between any kind of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.

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You can be in the Horseguards and still be common, dear.

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A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

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Giants can be surprised. And they can't move as fast as pygmies.

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Do you know what le vice Anglais – the English vice – really is? Not flagellation, not pederasty – whatever the French believe it to be. It's our refusal to admit to our emotions. We think they demean us, I suppose.

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Let us invent a character, a nice respectable, middle-class, middle-aged, maiden lady, with time on her hands and the money to help her pass it. She enjoys pictures, books, music, and the theatre and though to none of these arts (or rather, for consistency's sake, to none of these three arts and the one craft) does she bring much knowledge or discernment, at least, as she is apt to tell her cronies, she "does know what she likes". Let us call her Aunt Edna.

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