Caryl Churchill > Quotes

“Maud: Young women are never happy.
Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.
Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.”
― Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9

“There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don’t relate to oranges.”
― Caryl Churchill, Love and Information

“Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.”
― Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9

“I’ll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no.”
― Caryl Churchill

“You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.”
― Caryl Churchill, Far Away

“NIJO: I'm not a cheerful person, Marlene. I just laugh a lot.”
― Caryl Churchill, Top Girls

“Twigs and beetles and dead body. Water and blood. You’ll never get back.”
― Caryl Churchill, The Skriker

“Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of view.”
― Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9

“Glegg: But do you intend to be dead?
Worsely: I try to. My doctor says I'm so safety prone I must have a lifewish. I have a sense of humour about psychiatrists.”
― Caryl Churchill, Owners

“Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?”
― Caryl Churchill

“numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges”
― Caryl Churchill

“I am perfectly calm. I am just outspoken.”
― Caryl Churchill

“No I think that’s the joy of it. The hats are ephemeral. It’s like a metaphor for something or other.”
― Caryl Churchill, Far Away

“Or maybe there was no one there at all and you'd gone out so no matter how hard I shouted there was no one there.”
― Caryl Churchill, A Number

“Drunk enough to say "I love you?" - Caryl Churchill”
― Caryl Churchill

“But if there isn't a right way to do things you have to invent one.”
― Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill

“And then I thought, ‘wait a minute, my whole concept of what plays might be is from plays written by men…’ And I remember long before that thinking of the ‘maleness’ of the traditional structure of plays, with conflict and building in a certain way to a climax.”
― Caryl Churchill

“I woke up in the morning,
Blood was on the sheet,
I looked at all the women,
When I passed them in the street.
Nobody sings about it
But it happens all the time.

I met an old old woman
Who made my blood run cold.
You don't stop wanting sex, she said,
Just because you're old.
Oh nobody sings about it,
but it happens all the time.

I could be glad of the change of life,
But it makes me feel so strange.
If your life is being wanted
Do you want your life to change?

Oh nobody sings about it,
but it happens all the time.

Do you want your skin to wrinkle
And your cunt get sore and dry?
And they say it's just your hormones
If you cry and cry and cry.
Oh nobody sings about it,
but it happens all the time.”
― Caryl Churchill

“Worsely: You know what you were saying about a plastic bag. Suppose I put a plastic bag around my head and tied it tightly round the neck. What could possibly go wrong?

Clegg: Some of them nowadays has safety holes.

Worsely: Not all. I would have a look”
― Caryl Churchill, Owners

“Frightening.”
― Caryl Churchill, Top Girls

“Do you think you're well enough to do this job. You don't have to do it. No one's going to think any the less of you if you stay here with me. There's no point being so liberated you make yourself cry all the time. You stay and we'll get everything sorted out. What it is about sex, when we talk while it's happening I get to feel it's like a driving lesson. Left, right, a little faster, carry on, slow down...”
― Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9