Best Kenneth Williams Quotes & Sayings

We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better. — Kenneth Williams

A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia. — Kenneth Williams

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon. — Kenneth Williams

I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target. — Kenneth Williams

The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my life; they made me want to be a historian of Wales and of the world. — Kenneth O. Morgan

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself. — Kenneth Williams

There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act. — Charles Williams

When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it." And I also don't like to say, "It's fine, it's great." Unless it's clearly there. — Kenneth Lonergan

The program is already funded. Everything is in place. — Kenneth Williams

I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately. — Kenneth Williams

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement. — Kenneth Williams

Love is when you would go to the very end of the world with her, and in case she feels weary and tired in between the journey, you would carry her till the end. — Kenneth Williams

It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur. — Kenneth Williams

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. — Kenneth Williams

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND — Kenneth Williams

Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
1
I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next
summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do
and its wooden beams were so inviting.
2
We laughed at the hollyhocks together
and then I sprayed them with lye.
Forgive me. I simply do no know what I am doing.
3
I gave away the money that you had been saving to live on for the
next ten years.
The man who asked for it was shabby
and the firm March wind on the porch was so juicy and cold.
4
Last evening we went dancing and I broke your leg.
Forgive me. I was clumsy and
I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor! — Kenneth Koch

Repetition is indeed a great teacher when learning any mathematical skill. — Kenneth Williams

And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit. — Kenneth Williams

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. — Kenneth Williams

They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes. — Kenneth Williams

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence. — Michael Sheen

I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all. — Kenneth Williams

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness. — Kenneth Williams

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary
Last entry Oh whats the point? — Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To board a train into his mind would give me a ride into dark adventure. — Tennessee Williams

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look. — Kenneth Williams

Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me! — Frank Muir