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Quotes by British Authors
"You might think the Bangkok Hilton (the nickname of a fictional prison in Bangkok) was tough, well that was paradise compared to this place!"
"The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey."
"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
"For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire."
"I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly."
"To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real?"
"I beg your pardon, one knows exactly what to think."
"I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!"
"Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence-'This account of you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs."
"Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place."
"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."
"Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible."
"I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off."
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
"I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his life."
"Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything."
"I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury."
"Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither."
"Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible."
"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
"The Heart & Mind when in unison is the most powerful creative state for bringing your desires alive within your reality."
"Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing."
"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity."
"Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can."
"And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?" asked Mollie."Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced."
"I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have."
"The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur."
"When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?"
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