Smeeth Quotes & Sayings

I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky. — Alan Bennett

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying. — Brian D'Arcy James

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something. — Patricia Briggs

I write as a mode of penance for the arrogance inherent in my despair. — Charles McLeod

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism. — Ruth Smeeth

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love. — Robert Grudin

The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history. — William J. Clinton

Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews. — Ruth Smeeth

We ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas. — Marcel Proust

It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour Party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people. — Ruth Smeeth

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e ... In other words, the utopian enterprise. — Rem Koolhaas

Life forgets me but will not let me forget
Holds me down and tells me that I'm free. — Henry Rollins

You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow. — Wes Streeting

And what of the memories Nix had claimed to have? The memories I was missing? Was my mind so malleable a stranger could change it? Were all of my thoughts now suspect? The wounds and the wonders I'd carried from my youth - the dreams and desires I'd fostered for my future . . . the love and longing for the girl who'd stolen my heart? — Heidi Heilig

If you're going to die, then die. If you are going to live, then fight. — Emilie Autumn

I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'. — Ruth Smeeth