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Quotes by British Authors
"If you want to be watched by governments, all you have to do is tell people that you research radiation."
"Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?"
"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions."
"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."
"Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic."
"Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too."
"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
"I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna."
"She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape."
"Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next."
"The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing."
"Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going."
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
"A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face."
"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear."
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword."
"They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict."
"Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength."
"I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else."
"I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it."
"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."
"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."
"The sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits - love was an arm round the neck, a cramped embrace in the smoke, wealth a little pile of palm-nuts, old age sores and leprosy, religion a few stones in the centre of the village where the dead chiefs lay, a grove of trees where the rice birds, like yellow and green canaries, built their nests, a man in a mask with raffia skirts dancing at burials. This never varied, only their kindness to strangers, the extent of their poverty and the immediacy of their terrors. Their laughter and their happiness seemed the most courageous things in nature."
"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."
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
"When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred."
"John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket."
"You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show."
"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."
"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."
"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."
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