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Quotes by English Authors
"If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy."
"The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.- The Illustrated London News, July 10, 1920 Issue."
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
"But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them."
"But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT."
"...the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain."
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
"If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable."
"This country is undergoing great changes for the better."
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
"You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive."
"Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts."
"At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin."
"After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first."
"Common sense is genius in homespun."
"Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome."
"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination."
"Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying."
"Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now."
"If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat."
"When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four."
"I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure."
"A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind."
"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
"The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger."
"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
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