Paul Hoffman Quotes

You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.

Paul Hoffman

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• Tell the truth.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Truth
  • Tell

• I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Friend
  • Helped
  • Stylist

• I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Best

• I'm going to start a polo team with my friend, and we're trying to collect as many horses as we can. You have to find time for things you love.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Love

• I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Good
  • Support
  • Friend

• What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Done
  • Book

• The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Today
  • Enemy
  • Plan

• It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • May
  • Friend
  • Folly

• I like to think I'm a pretty good friend. I love having a good time, and I enjoy being able to share those good times with others.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Time
  • Good
  • Think

• The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Enemy

• It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Friend

• We shall not hunt together again, my friend. Our first hunt was here - and our last … They were good days, Yes, they have been good days...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Together
  • Friend

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Believe
  • Job
  • House

• Because of my interest in songwriting, I was invited to visit a friend in L.A. for songwriting sessions with him and his friends. We wrote six songs by the end of the weekend, and 'Hide Away' happened to be one of them!

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Weekend

• Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

  

  David Hume
  • Death
  • Friend
  • Powerful

• The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • True
  • Help
  • Friend

• Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Life
  • May
  • Giving

• Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Great
  • Now
  • Conflict

• 'A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like 'It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.'' (Italics in original)

  

  Margery Allingham

• Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Assumption
  • Realistic
  • Request

• You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.

  

  Paul Hoffman
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Tell