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Quotes by British Authors
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."
"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."
"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."
"Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage."
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
"British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target."
"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk."
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
"It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism."
"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
"It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling."
"Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!"
"In other words, Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with a very few simple ideas about God. But it is not so now. Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones - bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas. For a great many of the ideas about God which are trotted out as novelties to-day are simply the ones which real Theologians tried centuries ago and rejected."
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
"History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen."
"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
"The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you'."
"Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions."
"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
"I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week."
"Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin."
"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."
"The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill."
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