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Quotes by English Authors
"I hate what G.P. calls the New People, the new class people with their cars and their money and their tellies and their stupid vulgarities and their stupid crawling imitations of the bourgeoisie.(...)The New People are still the poor people, it is the new form of poverty. The others hadn't any money and these haven't any soul."
"Sometimes to return is a vulgarity."
"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."
"We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed."
"There are various levels above and below the human through which the individual soul may pass in the course of its reincarnations-the angelic, the titanic, the animal, the purgatories, and the realm of the frustrated ghosts."
"The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism."
"I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role."
"Their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw."
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
"We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare."
"When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,and when we escape like squirrels turning in thecages of our personalityand get into the forests again,we shall shiver with cold and frightbut things will happen to usso that we don't know ourselves.Cool, unlying life will rush in,and passion will make our bodies taut with power,we shall stamp our feet with new powerand old things will fall down,we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up likeburnt paper."
"If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar."
"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
"Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her."
"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
"There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too."
"A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast."
"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."
"If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established."
"However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy."
"And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born."
"A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance."
"No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book."
"My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days."
"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."
"But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price."
"It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."
"Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong."
"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."
"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."
"Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you."
"Look at the way people have swung through Communism, Toryism, Liberalism -- in vast blocks. In my father's boyhood you were either a Liberal or a Conservative in England, and there you stuck, and in America you were a sturdy individualist Democrat or Republican from the cradle to the grave. But now the Voice does it -- the pervading voice. And just nowit's come to a point when a Voice -- putting it straight and clear. Straight and clear..."
"And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were."
"We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do."
"There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it."
"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."
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