85 Quotes by Alistair Cooke

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.