Quote by Harold Pinter
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldnt possibl

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldnt possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. Theres a relationship to government about knights. – Harold Pinter

Other quotes by Harold Pinter

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 – or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish. – Harold Pinter

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Birthday
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect. – Harold Pinter

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respect
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. – Carly Fiorina

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The only thing growing faster than the federal governments deficit is Chris Matthews man-crush on Barack Obama. – Tim Pawlenty

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Common sense tells us that the governments attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. – Sarah Palin

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Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor. – Beverley Baxter

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. – William Hazlitt

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As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend ones language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. – W. H. Auden

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