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Quotes by English Authors
"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
"I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in."
"Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction."
"Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."
"It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution."
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven."
"For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive."
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
"I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987."
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."
"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"
"They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money."
"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."
"The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself."
"The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt."
"Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. But we cannot, I think, survive without such belief. So each of us must pretend to find, or re-erect, a pattern."
"I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species."
"A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again."
"Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar."
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."
"This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger."
"Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course."
"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."
"And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter."
"The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest- Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast."
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