Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Simon Gray

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Simon Gray.
Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Simon Gray

Simon James Holliday Gray was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to five published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film, and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries.

Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it. — © Simon Gray
Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.
In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.
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