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Quotes by English Authors
"If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know."
"Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."
"Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks."
"The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent."
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
"I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm."
"Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed."
"He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved."
"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."
"I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do."
"I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes."
"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it."
"When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice."
"I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody."
"When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower."
"One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell."
"Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering."
"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others."
"To Sorrow I bade good-morrow And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly cheerly She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me and so kind."
"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
"Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering."
"The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest."
"Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long."
"Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed."
"The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns."
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