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Quotes by British Authors
"Better a false belief than no belief at all."
"It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you."
"Now your boat comes in every day with Cosmic Ordering."
"It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
"The more you give, the less you need."
"I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour."
"Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense."
"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."
"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."
"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."
"I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids."
"We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything."
"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
"I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: "Oh, but you forget the good God." Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes."
"There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment."
"I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own."
"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848."
"In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect."
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
"There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week."
"People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement."
"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."
"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."
"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
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