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Quotes by British Authors
"In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John."
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
"Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine."
"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
"If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you."
"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"
"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages , they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."
"The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping."
"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."
"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."
"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."
"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
"I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life."
"The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. "
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
"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."
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex."
"I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance."
"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
"You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX."
"It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out."
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