I think there’s something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It’s humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
Often I think the novels I read won’t make very good movies – I better not say which I’m looking at for potential films! – but it’s nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you’ve got to get it right. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. Christopher Hampton Read Quote
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? Christopher Hampton Read Quote
