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Quotes by British Authors
"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."
"My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama."
"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
"Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples."
"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much."
"What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world."
"At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad."
"The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security."
"There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain."
"I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world."
"Empathy is not something we offer to our customers or our employees from nine to five. It is "a second by second, minute by minute service that we owe to everyone if we want to call ourselves a leader"."
"Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat."
"The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s."
"We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself."
"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
"We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets."
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."
"Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage."
"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
"There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things."
"A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin."
"We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size."
"I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful."
"Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image."
"Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger."
"Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts."
"I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it."
"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
"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."
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