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Top 30 Arthur Smith Quotes (2024 Update)

Arthur Smith Quote: “If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.”

1. “If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Obviously I am not bothered about men’s fashion – is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?”

2. “Obviously I am not bothered about men’s fashion – is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.”

3. “The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “I read ‘Crime and Punishment’ years ago and don’t recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.”

4. “I read ‘Crime and Punishment’ years ago and don’t recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.”

5. “I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “I couldn’t really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.”

6. “I couldn’t really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.”

7. “Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.”

8. “Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Don Quixote’s ‘Delusions’ is an excellent read – far better than my own forthcoming travel book, ‘Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.’”

9. “Don Quixote’s ‘Delusions’ is an excellent read – far better than my own forthcoming travel book, ‘Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.’”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Every generation of children has its private hero.”

10. “Every generation of children has its private hero.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn’t far behind.”

11. “Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn’t far behind.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “I’ve always been interested in art.”

12. “I’ve always been interested in art.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.”

13. “Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.”

14. “I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can’t skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what’s going on.”

15. “My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can’t skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what’s going on.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “I’m an armchair kind of guy, especially when it’s raining, which it always is and always will be.”

16. “I’m an armchair kind of guy, especially when it’s raining, which it always is and always will be.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.”

17. “The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can’t know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.”

18. “Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can’t know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that’s about it.”

19. “The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that’s about it.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.”

20. “An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper – perhaps Welsh rarebit – and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.”

21. “The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper – perhaps Welsh rarebit – and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “It’s worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you’ve won one but, since you never do know, it’s not worth it.”

22. “It’s worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you’ve won one but, since you never do know, it’s not worth it.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.”

23. “The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.”

24. “Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.”

25. “I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “My eyebrows could do with a trim.”

26. “My eyebrows could do with a trim.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.”

27. “Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.”

28. “If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “After you’ve read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.”

29. “After you’ve read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.”

30. “It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.”

31. “I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “About every four years, someone says to me, ‘I’ve got a friend who looks exactly like you.’ What can you say to this?”

32. “About every four years, someone says to me, ‘I’ve got a friend who looks exactly like you.’ What can you say to this?”

— Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith Quote: “It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.”

33. “It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.”

— Arthur Smith

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