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The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.
— Penelope Gilliatt
It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
— Penelope Gilliatt
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
— Penelope Gilliatt
I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
— Francesca Annis
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.
— Penelope Gilliatt
My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.
— Anthony Liccione
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
— Henry Van Dyke
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.
— Penelope Gilliatt
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.
— Penelope Gilliatt
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
— Hannah Arendt
Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.
— Penelope Gilliatt
Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?
— Julius Schwartz
Boomers were the original Millennials.
— Ted Rubin
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.
— Penelope Gilliatt
Funniness is the wild card in the pack.
— Penelope Gilliatt