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Quotes by English Authors
"Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them."
"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."
"Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been."
"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."
"Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door."
"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."
"Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?"
"Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important."
"I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s."
"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'."
"Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong."
"Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem."
"All his court were cast down in slumber, and all the fires faded and were quenched; but the Silmarils in the crown on Morgoth's head blazed forth suddenly with a radiance of white flame; and the burden of that crown and of the jewels bowed down his head, as though the world were set upon it, laden with a weight of care, of fear, and of desire, that even the will of Morgoth could not support. Then LAothien catching up her winged robe sprang into the air, and her voice came dropping down like rain into pools, profound and dark. She cast her cloak before his eyes, and set upon him a dream, dark as the outer Void where once he walked alone."
"I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression."
"Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge throughout the ages."Why don't we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens? he said.And Ridcully responded with the traditional response."It's got to be worth a try, he said."
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
"Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations."
"If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in."
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
"It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style."
"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."
"Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos."
"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."
"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me."
"It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice."
"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers."
"I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change."
"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."
"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."
"Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it."
"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."
"I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps."
"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts."
"It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot."
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