Christopher Hampton

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#asking #critics #dogs #feels #like

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#believe #divide #falsely #groups #i

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#decadence #feeble #i #rather #sophistication

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#commonplace #degrading #fail #having #humiliating

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#american women #capitalism #definition #give #had

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#famous #fervor #happiness #her #marriage

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#important #know #more #much #scientist