Emma Thompson Quotes

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word — politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.