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Quotes by British Authors
"Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?"
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
"I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this."
"I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares."
"When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)"
"After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela."
"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least."
"Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it's own merry way at it's own pace. But if you do then you " and life " will be the richer for you being here."
"I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!"
"The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals."
"This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect."
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
"People who copy you will always be one step behind."
"You know, he said. "I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do. There was silence, in the high place."
"I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different."
"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."
"It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat."
"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."
"It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
"Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals."
"I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get."
"You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish."
"I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy."
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
"We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment."
"How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons."
"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
"A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims."
"Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us."
"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past."
"We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear ."
"Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific."
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