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Quotes by English Authors
"What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?"
"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
"The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men."
"Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment."
"That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do."
"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
"What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities."
"Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then."
"Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory."
"Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it."
"The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward."
"There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said."
"No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his."
"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."
"Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him."
"Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop, suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head."
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
"In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me."
"It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free."
"Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation."
"Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self."
"And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into."
"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up."
"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
"The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience."
"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
"I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either."
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