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Quotes by British Authors
"It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity."
"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."
"Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity."
"Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?"
"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
"Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life."
"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."
"I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men."
"The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago."
"Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English."
"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."
"Many critics are born of envy."
"Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time."
"I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through."
"It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals."
"Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself."
"I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist."
"When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds."
"Being in touch with the natural world is crucial."
"Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also - since he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself - unshakeably certain of being in the right."
"I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me."
"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me."
"You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you."
"She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special."
"We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself."
"Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome."
"Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!"
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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