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Christopher Hampton Quotes

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

Christopher Hampton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: british
Birth: January 26, 1946

Topics

Life Great World Energy Result

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

Love Art Money Support People World

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Compassion Face Human Human Face

I'm a fighter. I go in the ring and do one thing.

Go Fighter Ring One Thing Thing

Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast.

Beginning Easy Fast Always Singer

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

Mattie Stepanek

Father Mean Scary Things Us Because

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.

Body Country London Appreciated Head

I do not like sweets. But if I have to choose one, it has to be rasmalai.

Choose Sweets Like

I just want to do good work.

Work Good Good Work Want Just

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Woman Control Destiny Protection Own

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Ethics Morals Want Personal My Own

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this.

Fence Never Over Seen Screaming Few

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

History Time Man Reality Development

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