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Quotes by British Authors
"If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants."
"No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable."
"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
"I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?"
"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree."
"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform."
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
"I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism."
"But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot."
"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."
"Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons."
"There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours."
"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."
"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly."
"Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material."
"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."
"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
"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 don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
"A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price."
"They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?"
"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
"I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them."
"It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it."
"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
"Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index."
"I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't."
"Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression."
"Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves."
"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."
"If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that."
"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
"St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return."
"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"
"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there."
"In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep."
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