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Quotes by British Authors
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."
"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."
"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
"What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
"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 infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least."
"I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life."
"To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals."
"Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine."
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own."
"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
"I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years."
"Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it."
"An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!"
"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."
"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."
"It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon."
"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."
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
"It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top."
"There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age."
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
"I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!"
"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
"Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise."
"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom."
"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
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