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Quotes by British Authors
"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."
"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."
"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"
"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."
"Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted."
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
"An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys."
"I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!"
"I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing."
"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
"I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle."
"In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops." in the poem "Beyond the Beacon" from Terra Affirmative."
"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!"
"Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell."
"People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching."
"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
"I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars."
"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."
"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."
"A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical."
"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."
"I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me."
"The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when."
"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
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