Dirk Bogarde Video

The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.

A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to – if there are no doors or windows – he walks through a wall.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

I have to act to live.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.

"When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done."

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.