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Quotes by English Authors
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."
"In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that."
"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness."
"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
"And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."
"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
"We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them."
"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."
"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."
"Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed."
"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity."
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider."
"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
"Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before."
"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."
"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."
"The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction."
"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"
"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
"That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it."
"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
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