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Quotes by British Authors
"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
"You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory."
"There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside."
"Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived."
"It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist."
"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me."
"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."
"I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?"
"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."
"Gratitude is the vitamin of the soul."
"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
"I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own."
"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."
"The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it."
"Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it."
"I don't understand, then, why, in the midst of all this, pregnant women - women trying to make rational decisions about their futures and, usually, that of their families, too - should be subject to more pressure about preserving life than, say, Vladimir Putin, the World Bank, or the Catholic Church."
"Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels."
"My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people."
"There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it."
"For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing."
"I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine."
"I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say."
"He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist."
"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."
"As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else."
"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."
"You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power."
"It's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor -- biting down on a wooden spoon, so as not to disturb the men's card game -- before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field."
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