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Quotes by British Authors
"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
"Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored."
"But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion."
"Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other."
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
"We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them."
"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity."
"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
"Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next."
"All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you."
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
"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."
"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."
"The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot."
"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."
"I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head."
"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."
"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. "By making him suffer, he said."Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?..."
"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."
"Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping."
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth."
"The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite."
"In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John."
"If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets."
"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."
"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal."
"Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions."
"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws."
"There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year."
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