Peter Barnes Quotes

Peter Barnes was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination. Wikipedia

✵ 10. January 1931 – 1. July 2004

Works

Red Noses

Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes: 2 quotes 0 likes

Peter Barnes Quotes

“How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.”

Peter Barnes

Source: The Ruling Class: A Baroque Comedy

God

“Gold we’ve got, humping we want – debauch! debauch!”

Peter Barnes Red Noses

Red Noses

Similar authors

A.A. Milne 169

British author

Doris Lessing 94

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer …

V.S. Naipaul 34

Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry

Arthur C. Clarke 207

British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, u…

W. Somerset Maugham 158

British playwright, novelist, short story writer

Elias Canetti 43

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist,…

William Golding 79

British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Lite…

Kazuo Ishiguro 76

Japanese-born British author

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 78

British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy …

Robert Baden-Powell 23

lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and…