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Quotes by English Authors
"Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly."
"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."
"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
"Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news."
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
"Prospect is often better than possession."
"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
"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."
"It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species."
"Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image."
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
"It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years."
"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home."
"As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made."
"Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."
"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."
"You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists."
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
"I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure."
"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
"I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause."
"The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond."
"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."
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
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