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Quotes by English Authors

"It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive."
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Peter Hook
"It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive."
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"These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth."
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William John Wills
"These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth."
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
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Terry Pratchett
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
"At my age, the radiation will probably do me good."
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Norman Wisdom
"At my age, the radiation will probably do me good."
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"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."
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James Lovelock
"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."
"I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."
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Nick Hornby
"I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."
"I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed."
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David Coverdale
"I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed."
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"A good marksman may miss."
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Thomas Fuller
"A good marksman may miss."
"I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments."
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William Lilly
"I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments."
"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device."
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Tim Berners Lee
"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device."
"I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too."
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Jamie Redknapp
"I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too."
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"Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains."
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Francis Quarles
"Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains."
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
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Charles Kingsley
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
"But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance."
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Frederick Soddy
"But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance."
"What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty."
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Alain de Botton
"What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty."
"And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself."
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Murray Walker
"And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself."
Now,
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"A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful."
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Frederick Robertson
"A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful."
"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."
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Edward Hall
"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."
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"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
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Robert Browning
"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
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"Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all."
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William Shakespeare
"Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all."
"I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody."
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Phil Collins
"I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody."
"Flowers are happy things."
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P. G. Wodehouse
"Flowers are happy things."
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"Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish."
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Roger Andrew Taylor
"Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish."
"I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody."
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Ken Hensley
"I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody."
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"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."
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Henry Mayhew
"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."
"Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?"
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Tom Felton
"Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?"
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"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"
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John Ciardi
"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"
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"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future."
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John Maynard Keynes
"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future."
"The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it."
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Cliff Richard
"The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it."
"Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present."
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William Tyndale
"Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present."
"I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am."
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Robert Barnes
"I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am."
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."
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Charles Darwin
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."
"I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster."
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Andy Summers
"I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster."
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"And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy."
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Denis Norden
"And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy."
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"We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe."
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Jerome K. Jerome
"We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe."
"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."
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Jerome K. Jerome
"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."
"I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people."
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Jane Horrocks
"I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people."
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"I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare."
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Kate Moss
"I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare."
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"To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance."
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Keith Richards
"To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance."
"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too."
"Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder."
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Agatha Christie
"Ah, but you must have a Christmas uncomplicated by murder."
"It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass."
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Alvin Lee
"It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass."
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"If you desire faith, then you have faith enough."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"If you desire faith, then you have faith enough."
"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
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Margaret Thatcher
"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."
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Alain de Botton
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."
"The true measure of life is not length, but honesty."
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John Lyly
"The true measure of life is not length, but honesty."
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"I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat."
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George Grossmith
"I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat."
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"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
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Sydney Smith
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
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John Berger
"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."
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Mark Rylance
"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."
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