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Quotes by British Authors
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
"I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy."
"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
"First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!"
"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
"He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done."
"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."
"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."
"There is nothing you lack and all you will find, we are one at the heart - just divided by mind. Don't let life pass you by."
"I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!"
"A rumbling volcano is like a pimple.You know that they're both going to explode,but you just don't know when."
"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."
"We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't."
"People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately."
"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
"To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals."
"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom."
"Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant."
"I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now."
"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."
"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
"Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
"In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."
"Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts."
"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."
"I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world."
"Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge."
"I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do."
"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
"Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!"
"An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness."
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too."
"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."
"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."
"There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours."
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