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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."
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
"Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly."
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
"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?"
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
"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."
"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."
"The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad."
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
"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."
"Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone."
"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."
"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
"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."
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
"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."
"As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made."
"I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure."
"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."
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