Christopher Hampton Quotes

Christopher Hampton — British Playwright born on January 26, 1946,

Christopher James Hampton, CBE, FRSL is a Portuguese British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement... (wikipedia)

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Christopher Hampton Quotes

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