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Quotes by English Authors
"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."
"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."
"I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing."
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
"A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race."
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
"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."
"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
"In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny."
"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."
"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England."
"I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause."
"Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed."
"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
"There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well."
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