184 Quotes by Harold Pinter

If you have only one of something you can’t say it’s the best of anything.

I’ve had my fill of these city guttersnipes – all that scavenging scum! They’re the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they’d feel would be a draught.

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a “siege situation” imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

GOLDBERG. Of course, now. Time’s getting on. Round the corner, remember? Mention my name.

Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God’s justice.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 – or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can’t be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

Stan, don’t let them tell you what to do!

I know little of women. But I’ve heard dread tales.