Quotes from Jonathan Lynn

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

Civil servants have an extraordinary genius for wrapping up a simple idea to make it sound extremely complicated.

Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They'd made her a sort of honorary man for the evening.

He that would keep a secret must keep it secret that he hath a secret to keep.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity.

So what's the problem?' 'No problem. There's no problem. Don't ever say what's the problem, nthat's the negative way of looking at things, you know like is the bottle half empty or half full, know what I mean, every problem is also an opportunity, the question here is what opportunity does this present us with?' 'It seems to me', said Ernest stubbornly, 'that this opportunity presents us with a problem. Is there a director that Virginia would like?

I haven't got a gun you homicidal pillock!

It's a matter of life after death, now that he's dead I have a life.

They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy.

I have always been careful of people who say they are behind me because that's where you need to be if you are going to stab them in the back.

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.