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Quotes by English Authors
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
"I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure."
"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."
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
"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."
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
"For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand."
"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England."
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
"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."
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
"I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor."
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"People want security in this insecure world."
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity."
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure."
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."
"Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear."
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