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Quotes by English Authors
"One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend."
"I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus."
"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
"Women do not often fall in love with philosophers."
"After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization."
"Every why hath a wherefore."
"He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice."
"How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand."
"Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it."
"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
"Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does."
"If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life."
"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."
"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
"I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900."
"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution."
"I am doubtful myself about the undertaking. Part of the attraction of the L.R. is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist. To go there is to destroy the magic, unless new unattainable vistas are again revealed. Also many of the older legends are purely 'mythological', and nearly all are grim and tragic: a long account of the disasters that destroyed the beauty of the Ancient World, from the darkening of Valinor to the Downfall of Numenor and the flight of Elendil."
"How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?"
"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move."
"It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself."
"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."
"Only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: "Why is the universe the way we see it? The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, we would not be here!"
"But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing."
"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."
"Little Alice fell d o w nthe hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul."
"May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep."
"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."
"Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious."
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