Been Quotes

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?

For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.

She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.

Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I’ve been through the last couple years on and off the court.

Game of Thrones’ is the greatest thing I’ve ever been a part of.