Harold Pinter Quotes

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

I have rules for everything.

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Popular and good and bad is not the same thing.

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

Limits are very important.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

The reason that we have rules is so that sometimes they can be suspended.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

It's appropriate for people to pursue their profit motive in business. If you want to change that, you're going against human nature. But when it comes to setting the rules or creating the institutions, then you should have the general interest at heart.

It is not enough to show me that a measure is expedient: you must show me also that it is right.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

We can be judged in many ways.

The rules are there for a reason.