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Quotes by British Authors
"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."
"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."
"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
"If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth."
"In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods."
"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."
"I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be."
"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
"Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience."
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
"What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world."
"Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it."
"I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre."
"The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past."
"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."
"Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools."
"Calm sailing doesn't come from calm waters, it comes from having a good navigator; a good crew and a good vessel."
"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain."
"He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes."
"I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia."
"Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!"
"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."
"I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played."
"Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned."
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