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Quotes by English Authors
"All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience."
"Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done."
"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."
"An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch."
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
"The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life."
"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."
"In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor."
"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it."
"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
"A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything."
"All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings."
"Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on."
"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."
"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics."
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
"When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse."
"Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it."
"I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations."
"He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game."
"I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong."
"The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music."
"Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you're so weird you should be in movies.;'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment."
"Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way."
"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"
"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web."
"Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished."
"The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them."
"And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted."
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