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Quotes by English Authors
"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."
"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
"An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex."
"Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll."
"I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it."
"Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus."
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."
"Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes."
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
"And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that."
"I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned."
"I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough."
"Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?"
"A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody."
"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."
"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet."
"Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required."
"Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?"
"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
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