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Quotes by English Authors
"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."
"Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
"But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT."
"I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort."
"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
"We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look."
"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
"The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word."
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it."
"When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there."
"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
"By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body."
"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
"If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion."
"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."
"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."
"I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already."
"This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped."
"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."
"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary."
"That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person."
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
"The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing."
"If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences."
"The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there."
"Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act."
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