Arthur Smith Quotes

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Arthur Smith

Profession : Comedian

Birth : November 27, 1954

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

Arthur Smith

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Arthur Smith

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

Arthur Smith

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.

Arthur Smith

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

Arthur Smith

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

Arthur Smith

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

Arthur Smith

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

Arthur Smith

When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.

Arthur Smith

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Arthur Smith

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

Arthur Smith

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

Arthur Smith

Every generation of children has its private hero.

Arthur Smith

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

Arthur Smith

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.

Arthur Smith