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Quotes by English Authors
"And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."
"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
"Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
"I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food."
"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."
"Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching."
"There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list."
"Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own."
"The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them."
"The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted."
"It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'"
"I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel."
"So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee."
"I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things."
"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."
"My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense."
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."
"That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects."
"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."
"Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really."
"Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue."
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."
"The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles."
"Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions."
"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."
"I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'"
"In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964."
"The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones."
"Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation."
"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all."
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