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Quotes by English Authors
"Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving."
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
"I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived."
"There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment."
"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."
"Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's."
"Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people."
"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."
"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."
"The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about."
"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."
"Education has for its object the formation of character."
"The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in."
"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."
"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
"The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language."
"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private."
"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."
"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."
"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."
"A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered."
"I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason."
"The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation."
"He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child."
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