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Quotes by British Authors
"There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent."
"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."
"We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life."
"He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke."
"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation."
"We are never like angels till our passion dies."
"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."
"Christianity is part of the Common Law of England."
"No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman."
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
"It is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the process of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of relevant government departments."
"I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it."
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."
"There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect."
"Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share."
"At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified."
"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
"Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit."
"I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable."
"You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible."
"Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning."
"We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization."
"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
"I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity."
"So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since."
"We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep."
"It's rather like the economic crash some years ago, many were impacted by it and their vibrational output slowed right down. They believed in the crash so were vacuumed in to it!"
"But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature."
"We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely."
"I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security."
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