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Quotes by British Authors
"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
"In pure innocent love, there is no longer present contradictions."
"Dive deep and make your discovery."
"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."
"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant."
"I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s."
"I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil."
"The human has no genetic adaptation to modern industrialized products and needs to be careful with prolonged exposure to these for good health."
"Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet."
"You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick at interpreting its language)."
"Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with."
"A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence."
"Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach."
"My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England."
"The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind."
"Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself."
"I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America."
"The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London."
"Within living memory of this country, men could rape their wives: women were not seen as a separate sexual entity, with the right of refusal."
"Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity."
"One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest."
"I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid."
"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
"Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics."
"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."
"Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be."
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
"I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago."
"I try and play 2 or 3 times a week to stay on my game."
"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
"The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid."
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