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Quotes by British Authors
"It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others."
"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."
"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."
"Don't waste your whole lifetime waiting for the perfect life when there's a perfectly good one within and right in front of you."
"The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama."
"Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower."
"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."
"Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me."
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that " but you are the only you."
"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
"With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine."
"We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone."
"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"
"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
"Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense."
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."
"I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics."
"To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time."
"Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge."
"Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!"
"Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."
"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
"But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bond Street, removed only by a hand's-breadth from ordinary people who might now, for the first and last time, be within speaking distance of the majesty of England, of the enduring symbol of the state which will be known to curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth."
"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other."
"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."
"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."
"The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure."
"Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring."
"Cynicism is the humour of hatred."
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me."
"And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion."
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
"When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
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