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Quotes by British Authors
"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."
"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment."
"He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals."
"Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
"Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised."
"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."
"It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case."
"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"
"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own."
"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."
"But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?"
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."
"The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy."
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."
"You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology."
"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
"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."
"With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything."
"The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get."
"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
"Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it."
"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone."
"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."
"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
"I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you."
"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."
"With experience comes improvement."
"I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower."
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
"Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous."
"Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living."
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