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Quotes by British Authors
"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."
"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."
"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
"I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it."
"Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them."
"But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself."
"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
"The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise."
"Friends can create our most cherished memories."
"Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today."
"As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff."
"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
"A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true."
"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
"I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!"
"Love, love, love, love is all you can do, even in the face of bitterness, pain, anger, confusion, it's the only thing to keep you steady and stop you biting back."
"A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to."
"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."
"Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows."
"Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young."
"Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?"
"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."
"I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important."
"It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions."
"I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care."
"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
"The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day."
"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead."
"Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her."
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