top of page
"I also found being called Sir rather silly."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Being quotes

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
Explore more quotes by Harold Pinter

"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."

"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."

"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."

"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."

"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."

"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."

"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."

"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
bottom of page