Quotes by Dennis Potter

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
– Dennis Potter
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
– Dennis Potter
You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke.
– Dennis Potter
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
– Dennis Potter
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
– Dennis Potter
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
– Dennis Potter
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
– Dennis Potter
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
– Dennis Potter