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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."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."
"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."
"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
"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."
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
"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."
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"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."
"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."
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
"The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad."
"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."
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing."
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