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Quotes by English Authors
"They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are."
"But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make."
"If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip."
"And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions."
"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
"I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum."
"If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me."
"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
"Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us."
"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality."
"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
"The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps."
"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."
"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."
"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."
"I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame."
"I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so."
"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."
"I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament."
"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."
"As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now."
"The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover."
"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."
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