David Niven Quotes


"I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet."
- David Niven
(Related: Clothes, Old)

"I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy."
- David Niven
(Related: Movies, Acting, Care, School)

"I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against."
- David Niven
(Related: Men, Girls, Wonder)

"Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity."
- David Niven
(Related: War, Humanity)

"Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end."
- David Niven
(Related: Work, End)

"Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way."
- David Niven
(Related: Age, Day, Old, Want)

"The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings."
- David Niven
(Related: Life, Man, Will)

"You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down."
- David Niven
"Malta is a sod of a place."
- David Niven