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Quotes by English Authors
"People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups."
"Those only deserve a monument who do not need one."
"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
"I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off."
"No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always."
"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits."
"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."
"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."
"Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection."
"Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been."
"I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them."
"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."
"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."
"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
"Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path."
"In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."
"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."
"Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them."
"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
"It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them."
"I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer."
"We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot."
"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
"It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England."
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
"No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock."
"As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her forehead."
"A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands."
"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."
"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
"I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth."
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