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Quotes by English Authors
"Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them."
"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
"Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together."
"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake."
"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."
"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
"A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs."
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
"I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man."
"So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game."
"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."
"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."
"The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there."
"I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff."
"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
"It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that."
"Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base."
"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
"A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games."
"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."
"You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing."
"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."
"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
"We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them."
"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."
"The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years."
"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."
"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."
"The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity."
"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
"With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb."
"Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse."
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