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Quotes by British Authors
"There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend."
"If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets."
"It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world."
"Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart."
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping."
"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."
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."
"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
"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!"
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
"In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John."
"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."
"Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words."
"Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions."
"I'll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of."
"It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos."
"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."
"That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization."
"The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite."
"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth."
"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."
"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."
"I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies."
"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."
"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages , they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."
"You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns."
"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."
"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?..."
"The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door."
"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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