Top 127 Quotes & Sayings by Harold Pinter - Page 3

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.

I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.