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Quotes by British Authors
"It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea."
"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."
"Don't eat the bread unless you want to leave bread crumbs."
"Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix."
"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
"If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it."
"I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick."
"Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety."
"He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone."
"One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much."
"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile."
"John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket."
"Now, Watson," said he, "we have picked up two clues this morning. One is the bicycle with the Palmer tyre, and we see what that has led to. The other is the bicycle with the patched Dunlop. Before we start to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental."
"Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength."
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
"I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad."
"Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually."
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
"I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his life."
"Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right."
"I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time."
"Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast."
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."
"Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing."
"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
"It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless."
"If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on."
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