352 Quotes by Roger Scruton

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

I've always loved horses.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

I'm a hate figure for a certain kind of half-educated politically correct person.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

To live with someone who likes you, and whose judgement you respect, because you love them, does make quite a difference, I find.

Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.

Fashion makes me laugh.

A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people.