Hugh Quotes

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.

A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.

If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

My grandmother made dying her life's work.

I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

I've always believed in survival.

My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.

I think with every writer there are two people there.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

I am in very good health. I've never felt better.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

Out of sight is out of mind.

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!

As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

There is a great Field-Marshal, my friend, who arrays our battalions; Let us to Providence trust, and abide and work in our stations.

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?

What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!