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Quotes by British Authors
"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear."
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."
"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
"The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now."
"Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold."
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."
"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
"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."
"A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims."
"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past."
"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."
"It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top."
"The junkies had themselves a field day, they didn't care for the safety of the overseas tourists, no sir. They would stop at nothing. Some tourists were left bloodied and battered on the sacred ground of the Wallace Monument, minus their video cameras and the likes. The camera's were soon sold to a fence in the Raploch for pennies, compared to the actual price it was worth, then the junkies didn't waste much time getting to Big Mags' door with the £20 that they had got from the local fence in the nearby neighbourhood."
"Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre."
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
"The 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've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!"
"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."
"When we are born our eyes open onto the world.When we learn the truth about the world we choose to close our eyes to the world around us.And when we die, we open our eyes for that last time to see that in our ignorance, we could have changed the world for all to see."
"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."
"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."
"Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess."
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
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