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Quotes by British Authors
"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."
"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."
"I may not understand, but I am willing to admire."
"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
"The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional and transient as those of bygone ages. The intelligent and reflective engagement with the thought of a bygone era ultimately subverts any notion of "chronological snobbery". Reading texts from the past makes it clear that what we now term "the past" was once "the present", which proudly yet falsely regarded itself as having found the right intellectual answers and moral values that had eluded its predecessors."
"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
"He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age."
"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
"It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top."
"CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END."
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
"I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'."
"Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
"Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold."
"You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns."
"For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause."
"Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish."
"I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me."
"Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it."
"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."
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
"There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it."
"Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous."
"I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa."
"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
"Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
"I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."
"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
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