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Quotes by British Authors
"The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill."
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."
"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
"The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger."
"It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that."
"Statistics is the grammar of science."
"If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that."
"For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play."
"In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors."
"It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone."
"As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless."
"If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong."
"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."
"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible."
"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
"I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes."
"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
"Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different."
"The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise."
"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
"Always let your talent and tenacity do the talking. Never your tantrums or sense of self righteousness or entitlement. For it is your talent and tenacity that will carve out, shape and seal your possibilities and destiny."
"Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum."
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