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Quotes by English Authors
"One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on."
"A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance."
"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."
"There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag."
"Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling..."
"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."
"I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is."
"I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel."
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."
"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
"If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere."
"A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household."
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
"Among physicists, I'm respected I hope."
"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."
"Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence."
"We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works."
"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."
"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"
"I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either."
"Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of."
"The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me."
"Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility."
"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not."
"A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution."
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