Quips& Quotes

“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.” – Franklin P Jones, quoted in The Week

“Downton Abbey is a phenomenon, but not a great deal happens. I watched an episode and moss was growing on a butler in real time. Glaciers shooting past the window.” – comedian Bill Bailey

“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.” – plasterer Mick on Australia’s Married at First Sight

“Winston was there because he was at the very first signing of the Treaty.”

– comedian Paul Ego on Waitangi Day, on 7 Days

“If we fail to perpetuate and constantly renew our faith in the Treaty and its principles, then they will recede and wither with neglect.” – Ngāi Tahu elder Sir Tipene O’Regan at Ōnuku

Marae

“We have now reached a point where we must see ourselves no longer as the damaged and dispossessed victims, but as a part of the development of what this nation might yet become. We can now afford to dream.” – Sir Tipene O’Regan

“A film without music is like Laurel without Hardy. It’s Queen without Freddie Mercury. It’s Britain without Europe.” – actor Andy Serkis at the Baftas

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”

– British philosopher Bertrand Russell