Quote

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.

Harold Pinter

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Harold Pinter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: October 10
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
Actor
Author
Director
Film Director
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
London
England
Literature
Possibly
Found
Offer
Government
Somehow
Something
Offers
Accept
Couldn
Squalid
Accepting
Knighthood
Relationship
Knights

More quotes by Harold Pinter

Image
Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.
Harold Pinter
Image
When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.
Harold Pinter
Image
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
Harold Pinter
Image
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
Harold Pinter
Image
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
Harold Pinter
Image
Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
Harold Pinter
Image
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
Harold Pinter
Image
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter
Image
There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
Harold Pinter
Image
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
Harold Pinter
Image
No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.
Harold Pinter
Image
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.
Harold Pinter
Image
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.
Harold Pinter
Image
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold Pinter
Image
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.
Harold Pinter
Image
The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
Harold Pinter
Image
I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flame thrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess the action from a political point of view.
Harold Pinter
Image
Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
Harold Pinter
Image
Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
Harold Pinter
Image
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter