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Quotes by British Authors
"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."
"If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens."
"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
"I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil."
"Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility."
"All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better."
"From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour."
"A master of improvised speech and improvised policies."
"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."
"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."
"Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic."
"A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'"
"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
"I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake."
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues."
"Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me."
"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."
"The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up."
"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'."
"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."
"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
"What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us."
"Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed."
"People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not."
"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."
"If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does."
"Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it."
"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."
"A little orange will put a spring into your day."
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."
"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
"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."
"If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused."
"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind."
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