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Quotes by English Authors
"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
"We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great."
"Production is something I've never come to terms with."
"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."
"A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing."
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
"I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'."
"My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly."
"That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember."
"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."
"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
"If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him."
"Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge."
"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."
"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout."
"Where no hope is left is left no fear."
"We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat."
"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."
"The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies."
"Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them."
"If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters."
"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
"The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction."
"Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no."
"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
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