Rupert Smith > Quotes

“Some mistakes are worth making twice.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“Fabulous lover, excellent decorator - rotten writer? Nobody can be good at everything, and two out of three ain't bad.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I'm an actor." "Oh Christ."
"And a writer." "Oh double Christ.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“And I know that I would take one night with him, one hour, against everything that the world, or Hitler, can throw at me.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“We got plenty of laughs, but not always for the right reasons.”
― Rupert Smith

“Why, oh why won't she just overdose?”
― Rupert Smith, Service Wash

“The lesser the talent, the longer they spent on the red carpet.”
― Rupert Smith, Service Wash

“I can be terribly vulgar in private life, especially after a nip of dry sherry.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“War no longer exists.”
― Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

“Capability = Means × Way^2 × 3xWill”
― Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

“Adultery would be punishable by stoning if Annette had her way; I sometimes wonder if she's secretly Muslim.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I began to think that my life, although profoundly boring on the surface, was quite interesting in literary terms.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I was free, yes, but what good was freedom without knowledge?
Knowledge was coming, lurking in the future like the serpent in the garden, and with knowledge came love and the bitter sting of regret, the pain of exile from paradise”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I was free, yes, but what good was freedom without knowledge?”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“Armed conflict is a human condition, and I do not doubt we will continue to reinvent it from generation to generation.”
― Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force

“What the fuck are you doing," he said, "hiding away in your parents' house? You should be back here, where it's all happening! Life!"
He gestured around the pub, a forlorn place with bare floorboards covered in fag ends; who knows what visions he saw in his mind.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“I firmly believe in shutting up when you've got nothing worthwhile to say. There's nothing worse than these writers who churn out book after book, each one a little duller, until nobody can remember why they liked them in the first place.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“The ends for which we fight are changing from the hard objectives that decide a political outcome to those of establishing conditions in which the outcome may be decided.”
― Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

“Happiness is marvellous in real life, but it's a terrible handicap for an artist.”
― Rupert Smith, Interlude

“Secure the hearts of the nation's menopausal millions, Eileen knew, and no jury would dare convict her.”
― Rupert Smith, Service Wash