Tony Parsons Quotes

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.
Tony Parsons

Someone, Down, Else

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
Tony Parsons

Love, Change, Beautiful

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.
Tony Parsons

Through, Old, Sweet

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.
Tony Parsons

Person, Handsome, Guy

If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.
Tony Parsons

Someone, Hatred, Insult

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.
Tony Parsons

Family, Morning, Care

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
Tony Parsons

Live, Regret, Nation

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.
Tony Parsons

Individual, Tattoo

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
Tony Parsons

Public, Schools, Grammar

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.
Tony Parsons

Diet, Pretty, Week

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.
Tony Parsons

Time, Said, Somebody

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.
Tony Parsons

Great, Live, Parents

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.
Tony Parsons

Age, Before, Wrote

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
Tony Parsons

Hate, Wanted, Since

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.
Tony Parsons

Dad, Found, Star

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.
Tony Parsons

Love, Work, History

I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.
Tony Parsons

Love, Until, Fall

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.
Tony Parsons

Nature, Mother, Father

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.
Tony Parsons

Alone, Live, End

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.
Tony Parsons

Parents, Before, After

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
Tony Parsons

Parents, Between, Dead

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.
Tony Parsons

Trying, Looking, Teenage

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.
Tony Parsons

Nice, Guy, Surprised

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.
Tony Parsons

Living, Ugly, Large

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
Tony Parsons

Before, Child, Against

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Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: 1953

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