quotes by Hugh Laurie

"Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless were going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes."
— Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)

"Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs."
— Hugh Laurie

"I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. "
— Hugh Laurie

"In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over."
— Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)

"This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed"
— Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)

"I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give. "
— Hugh Laurie

"People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems. "
— Hugh Laurie

"Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused."
— Hugh Laurie

"Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal."
— Hugh Laurie

"It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little."
— Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)

"She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically."
— Hugh Laurie

"I think you're a dangerous, corrupt, lying piece of nine-day-old mosquito shit."
— Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)