Kenneth Williams Quotes

Love is when you would go to the very end of the world with her, and in case she feels weary and tired in between the journey, you would carry her till the end.

(Tuesday, 1 October 1968)
Why oh! why did I keep on postponing experiences until it was too late to have them? I'm like someone who wanted - indeed ached to swim, but never dared put my foot in the water. Just sat and watched others doing it, till eventually the very idea of the water is alien and frightening. I am the living proof of the futility of thought without action.

We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better.

I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.

Repetition is indeed a great teacher when learning any mathematical skill.

And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit.

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia.

I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

(Tuesday, 21 April 1964)
They needn't talk to me about loneliness. I've walked too many miles of pavement. I've scanned so many faces - I've looked with so much furtive hope, but it's never right. Only in my imagination. There, I have marvellous conversations with someone attractive, slow, charmingly phlegmatic & naturally reticent, and with me, he becomes articulate. But in fact, I take a sleeping pill & tell myself to shut up.

They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes.

(Sunday, 20 March 1988)
Oh! to be out of it for ever! To cease upon the midnight with no pain. Why do I linger? Not from love of life, I've always found it awful... no, it's rather from a sense of curiosity... not wanting to miss the third act.

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.