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Quotes by English Authors
"The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it."
"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."
"Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic."
"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."
"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."
"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
"The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature."
"He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin."
"I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that."
"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."
"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government."
"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
"We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind."Oh, no! You think so?"Yes."But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time."Not Nobby," said Vimes testily. "Whatever he might do to a dragon, I doubt if he'd make it explode. There's stranger people in this world than Corporal Nobbs, my lad."Carrot's expression slid into a rictus of intrigued horror."Gosh," he said."
"I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano."
"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly."
"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."
"A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery."
"Common sense is in medicine the master workman."
"I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines."
"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."
"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
"Some people use just one condom, right? But we use tons."
"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy."
"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."
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