John Harington Quotes

“From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.”

“On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.”

“Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.”

“We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.”

“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.”

“If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.”

“Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.”

“Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.”

“Pain is a part of life. I hated that fact. I would be much happier without it but then it wouldn't be my life.”

“Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.”