Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Terence Rattigan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British dramatist Terence Rattigan.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was a British dramatist and screenwriter. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954), among many others.

British - Dramatist | June 10, 1911 - November 30, 1977

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Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.

Terence Rattigan

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

Terence Rattigan

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

Terence Rattigan

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

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.

Terence Rattigan

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Terence Rattigan

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