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Quotes by British Authors
"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."
"In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John."
"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."
"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich."
"He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work."
"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
"It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us."
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart."
"I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift."
"There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth."
"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex."
"My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors."
"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."
"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
"In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist."
"I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance."
"Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."
"I personally could never come to terms with my label of 'Criminally Insane'. Just because of my violent outbursts in prison, don't mean to say I'm mad. Obviously I had become a disruptive element within the penal system. Uncontrollable! Unpredictable! But that don't make insanity!"
"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
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