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Quotes by British Authors
"Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet."
"Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life's simple truths."
"I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version."
"Be oblivious to city high-rises, work-related stress and microwave popcorn."
"Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam."
"Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we're allowed to explore the side streets."
"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
"It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism."
"Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you."
"The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise."
"As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff."
"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."
"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience."
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."
"Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues."
"Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell."
"It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans."
"No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by."
"Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government."
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
"I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did."
"I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways."
"I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now."
"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done to say it. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals."
"The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought."
"I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter."
"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."
"I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling."
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