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Quotes by British Authors
"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own."
"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration."
"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice."
"I desire the world - therefore I have it."
"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
"But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bond Street, removed only by a hand's-breadth from ordinary people who might now, for the first and last time, be within speaking distance of the majesty of England, of the enduring symbol of the state which will be known to curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth."
"You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology."
"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."
"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
"I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this."
"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
"The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms."
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
"I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing."
"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty."
"In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops." in the poem "Beyond the Beacon" from Terra Affirmative."
"I'm not altogether sure what I'm going to do for that. I think it will be a lot more low key than the other two I've done. Dare I say it, a bit more relaxing."
"The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama."
"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."
"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."
"If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them."
"I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped."
"I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in."
"Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm."
"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."
"The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome."
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