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Quotes by English Authors
"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer."
"We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England."
"I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official!"
"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
"Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple."
"I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave."
"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."
"I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment."
"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"
"The market controls everything, but the market has no heart."
"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
"Being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another's heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own."
"When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons."
"Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,In pleasing memory of all he stole."
"Silence is one great art of conversation."
"I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did."
"What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone."
"To every problem, there is a most simple solution."
"Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands."
"No social stability without individual stability."
"All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face."
"Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood."
"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
"I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest."
"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."
"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me."
"The butler entered the room a solemn procession of one."
"Easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret."
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