Jonathan Lynn Quotes & Sayings

I haven't got a gun you homicidal pillock! — Jonathan Lynn

Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They'd made her a sort of honorary man for the evening. — Jonathan Lynn

If people stop having secrets they stop having power. — Jonathan Lynn

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts. — Jonathan Lynn

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. — Jonathan Lynn

Civil servants have an extraordinary genius for wrapping up a simple idea to make it sound extremely complicated. — Jonathan Lynn

Well,'said Ernest, 'by some strange coincidence I know this story.'
Boddichek was not good at irony. 'I knew that there was that possibility,' he said, 'but we have a great new way to treat it, and I thought you might want to reread it before taking a meeting.'
'Reread it?' said Mayday. 'We are talking about Cinderella, and the wicked stepmother and the Ugly Sisters and Buttons the page and the Fairy Godmother, "Cinders, you shall go to the ball but be sure you're home by midnight or you'll turn into pumpkin"?'
'Hey, you know it pretty well,' said young Casey with admiration in his voice. 'But I've found a new directionality for this story.'
'Do you mean direction?' asked Mayday.
'I guess I do.'
'Then', snapped Mayday, 'why don't you fucking say so? — Jonathan Lynn

They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy. — Jonathan Lynn

Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity. — Jonathan Lynn

So what's the problem?'
'No problem. There's no problem. Don't ever say what's the problem, nthat's the negative way of looking at things, you know like is the bottle half empty or half full, know what I mean, every problem is also an opportunity, the question here is what opportunity does this present us with?'
'It seems to me', said Ernest stubbornly, 'that this opportunity presents us with a problem. Is there a director that Virginia would like? — Jonathan Lynn

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy! — Jonathan Lynn