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Quotes by British Authors
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."
"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
"I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund."
"The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get."
"You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit."
"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting."
"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."
"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
"I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world."
"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."
"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing."
"Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility."
"If you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, use Cosmic Ordering."
"There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain."
"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
"Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France."
"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."
"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."
"I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
"I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be."
"But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve."
"Two lives that once part are as ships that divide."
"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight."
"We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment."
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