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Quotes by English Authors
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."
"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
"Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly."
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
"The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad."
"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."
"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it."
"Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image."
"A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race."
"I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke."
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
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