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Quotes by English Authors
"Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it."
"The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky."
"And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion."
"In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it."
"Thou art a man, God is no more, Thy own humanity, Learn to adore."
"The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work."
"Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache."
"He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed."
"I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal."
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
"Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage."
"Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six, we were of that disposition."
"My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it."
"I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?"
"Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?"
"After that, he drank all the rest of the sherry, and Mr. Hubble drank the port, and the two talked (which I have since observed to be customary in such cases) as if they were of quite another race from the deceased, and were notoriously immortal."
"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."
"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."
"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
"It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano."
"I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities."
"I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell."
"The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself."
"Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession."
"The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time."
"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember."
"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
"I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career."
"I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything."
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