Simon Beaufoy Quotes

Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .

On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and they landed from above and they said "These are the gods you will worship, these are the crops you will grow, now go away and do it." Which is a manly attitude. Americans go abroad and they say, "Try not to quarrel so much", which is a feminine attitude.

There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

Yeah, you always have to be there and remind people of you. It's complicated when you do music, or when you do anything in general. You need time. I don't know if it's because of the weather or what, but [Canadians] seem to have a relationship to time that I like very much.

My biggest fear is the people I love not knowing how much I love them. I just want to remind people all the time.

In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.