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Quotes by English Authors
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."
"It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself."
"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
"Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days."
"The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see."
"POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."
"Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals."
"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."
"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."
"All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me."
"Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise."
"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."
"In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny."
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