Quotes of Kenneth Clark - somelinesforyou

“ It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ I can't help observing that with the last shadow cabinet you were not allowed to join unless you were a very, very hardline Eurosceptic. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change. ”

- Kenneth Clarke

“ We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ”

- Kenneth Clark

“ It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. ”

- Kenneth Clarke
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