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Quotes by British Authors
"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."
"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."
"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind."
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it."
"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."
"Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit."
"An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys."
"The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago."
"There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth."
"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
"Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you."
"Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!"
"He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other."
"He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven."
"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
"You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation."
"The secret to success is constancy of purpose."
"Don't accentuate our differences,but instead focus on our similarities."
"Life is an adventure I am enjoying creating."
"Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess."
"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."
"These wretched babies don't come until they are ready."
"She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!"
"Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me."
"Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way."
"If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it."
"When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you."
"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."
"It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest."
"I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play."
"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion."
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
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