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Quotes by English Authors
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"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."
"I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing."
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad."
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."
"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
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