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Quotes by British Authors
"Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow."
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
"For we think back through our mothers if we are women."
"Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant."
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
"When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness."
"The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them."
"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place."
"It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top."
"I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life."
"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart."
"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."
"All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully."
"Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else was subjugated to this ruling passion, reading stories. As a consequence, I can barely add a column of double digits, I have not the slightest idea of how a plane flies, I can't draw any better than a five-year-old."
"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."
"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest."
"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
"You would like to know how I behave when I am experiencing pain, not writing books about it. You need not guess, for I will tell you; I am a great coward... If I knew any way of escape I would crawl through sewers to find it. But what is the good of telling you about my feelings? You know them already; they are the same as yours. I am not arguing that pain is not painful. Pain hurts. That is what the word means. I am only trying to show that the old Christian doctrine of being made 'perfect through suffering' is not incredible. To prove it palatable is beyond my design."
"I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me."
"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."
"We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us."
"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it."
"I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.'If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether."
"If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it."
"A normal fighter in the street fights in a different way than a disciplined boxer, but a boxer is from the other world, it's a big difference. A boxer can throw a six-inch punch. A six-inch punch can knock you clean down. I'm very wary of those boxers, I can tell you. If you get a boxer that can street fight and he mixes it together then it makes a lethal combination! I mixed boxing and street fighting in to a cocktail and when I knocked them down I kept them down by use of the boot."
"I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes."
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