Giovannino Guareschi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.
There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

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