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Quotes by British Authors
"After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people."
"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
"I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it."
"When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word."
"If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed."
"A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest."
"As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth."
"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought."
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
"I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home."
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."
"When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th."
"I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time."
"Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour."
"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself."
"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."
"This was a favourite dress, one of Sally Parker's, the last almost she ever made, alas, for Sally had now retired, living at Ealing, and if ever I have a moment, thought Clarissa (but never would she have a moment any more), I shall go and see her at Ealing."
"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
"Dark nights are unpleasant," "Yes, for strangers to travel,""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is approaching."
"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
"And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless."
"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."
"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
"We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going."
"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"
"Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories."
"I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me."
"Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility."
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