top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by British Authors
"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
"To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all."
"The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in."
"Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became."
"Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce."
"I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections."
"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there."
"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."
"We enact many laws that manufacture criminals and then a few that punish them."
"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
"You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home."
"I am wealth, I am abundance, I am Cosmic Ordering."
"I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it."
"Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction."
"My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters."
"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"
"I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting."
"It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light."
"People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad."
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
"I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code."
"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
"I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this."
"If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes."
"I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence."
"I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time."
bottom of page