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Quotes by English Authors
"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
"Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
"Nature to be commanded must be obeyed."
"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."
"I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet."
"The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see."
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
"The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich."
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
"When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people."
"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness."
"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
"Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple."
"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."
"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."
"I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career."
"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
"The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons."
"I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness."
"Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed."
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."
"I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up."
"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it."
"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."
"I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before. Probably a permanent holiday: I don't expect I shall return. in fact, I don't mean to, and I have made all arrangements....I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.'Bilbo'."
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