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Quotes by British Authors
"Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so."
"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."
"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life."
"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
"However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account."
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
"The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!"
"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."
"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."
"The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. "
"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know."
"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
"I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force."
"It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out."
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
"It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us."
"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich."
"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
"The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite."
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
"In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist."
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."
"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it."
"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
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