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Quotes by English Authors
"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
"As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made."
"I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure."
"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."
"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home."
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England."
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
"Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed."
"I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing."
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
"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."
"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country."
"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
"I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause."
"In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny."
"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."
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