David Niven > Quotes

“You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.”
― David Niven

“There are wonderful people out there but also wonderful people right here.”
― David Niven

“Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.”
― David Niven

“Much in life is simply a matter of perspective. It's not inherently good or
bad, a success or failure; it's how we choose to look at things that makes the difference.”
― David Niven

“From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: "You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you— I know FUCK ALL!”
― David Niven

“Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.”
― David Niven

“Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives”
― David Niven, The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

“Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.”
― David Niven

“Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.”
― David Niven

“Spending your time imagining what would have been if you could have changed some little thing, some little decision in your life, is counterproductive and leaves you unhappy. Think about how you can improve for the future, but don't waste your present thinking about how you could have changed the past”
― David Niven

“From some long-forgotten celebration, Madame produced two small Union Jacks and with Claude at my side, bells ringing, and flags fluttering bravely from the handle-bars, we free-wheeled down the whole length of the Champs Elyseés to the admiring plaudits of the crowd. Mounted on a woman’s bicycle, I was probably the first British soldier the French of Paris had seen for five years.”
― David Niven, The Moon's a Balloon

“When you are a senior boy in an English Public School, you perhaps reach the pinnacle of your self-importance.”
― David Niven, The Moon's a Balloon

“Pot, speed, hashish and L.S.D. were as yet unheard of so instead of sitting around looking inwards, we rushed about noisily and happily extroverted.”
― David Niven, The Moon's a Balloon

“include me out,”
― David Niven, The Moon's a Balloon

“There is no panacea for this kind of loss. Just know that every day it gets the tiniest bit better-- suddenly one day you can put it in a different perspective.”
― David Niven