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Quotes by British Authors
"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."
"Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was."
"By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.''I shall be delighted.''You don't mind breaking the law?''Not in the least.''Nor running a chance of arrest?''Not in a good cause.''Oh, the cause is excellent!''Then I am your man.''I was sure that I might rely on you."
"All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain."
"I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him."
"Never worry if you're excluded from the circle, sometimes it's full of squares."
"Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out."
"I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next."
"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."
"In your eyes I can see my heart."
"We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within."
"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."
"I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool."
"If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago."
"I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence."
"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."
"Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition."
"I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."
"Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half - seas - over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.'But should you wish yourself to be like him?'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am."
"I'll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It's the silence that scares me. It's the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment."
"The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace."
"An awakened man who is driven by his heart and soul, can touch the heart of a woman he loves, without touching her."
"You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you."
"I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it."
"Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour."
"He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy."
"It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea."
"In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system."
"The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one."
"The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship."
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