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Quotes by British Authors
"What's the book like?""Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!"
"I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them."
"People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway."
"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
"To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject."
"However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account."
"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite."
"American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England."
"They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!"
"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising."
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
"Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend."
"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich."
"I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift."
"I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold."
"Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so."
"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
"I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator."
"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."
"The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!"
"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life."
"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
"If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly."
"A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."
"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex."
"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
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