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Quotes by English Authors
"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home."
"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England."
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country."
"Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed."
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
"I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing."
"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
"So I departed and was free from imprisonment."
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
"What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here."
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