352 Quotes by Roger Scruton

My little book of stories, 'Souls in the Twiligh,' may have to stand in for all the other things I have wanted to write in my retirement.

I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our own advantage.

I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books or listen to my lectures will realise this.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

When a woman cries date rape what she means is the whole thing went too quickly.

Although homosexuality has been normalised, it is not normal.

I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more vividly and to greater effect than ordinary philosophical prose can because they don't just deal in ideas but show the emotional reality of them.

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

I love Viennese waltzes and polkas, and especially ceilidhs and old-fashioned formation dancing.