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Quotes by British Authors
"God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?"
"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
"Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."
"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded."
"I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years."
"All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."
"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
"Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!"
"Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us."
"Cynicism is the humour of hatred."
"An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!"
"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
"Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat."
"I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves."
"Curiosity is a descending stair that leads to only who-knows-where."
"Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production."
"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."
"There is nothing you lack and all you will find, we are one at the heart - just divided by mind. Don't let life pass you by."
"Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!"
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
"You have to accept all sides of yourself " there's no point fighting them " just learn how to handle them, and return to the positive, balanced being you know you can be, once the winds have blown through."
"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
"We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply 'stop'."
"As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples."
"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far."
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
"You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you."
"Do not fear the ghosts in this house; theyare the least of your worries.Personally I find the noises they make reassuring,The creaks and footsteps in the night,their little tricks of hiding things,or moving them, I findendearing, not upsettling. It makes the placefeel so much more like a home.Inhabited."
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