Quotes by : Alan Hollinghurst

She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to....

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness....

I can’t bear the smell of cigars, can you?” said Lady Partridge. “Lionel hates it too,” murmured....

She felt something similar, but worse in a way, about hundreds and hundreds of books she’d read, novels,....

He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing....

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.