50 Quotes by Diane Cilento

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.