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Quotes by English Authors
"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."
"I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day."
"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death -- a state which I feared yet did not understand."
"Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished."
"Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and have not outlived you yet. Welcome, old projects, and old loves, however fleeting, to your nooks among the steadier lights that burn around us."
"Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried."
"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity."
"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."
"He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural."
"Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is."
"When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh."
"Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them."
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
"I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day."
"Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal."
"Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards."
"I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren."
"The More Loving OneLooking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast.How should we like it were stars to burnWith a passion for us, we could not return?If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.Admirer as I think I amOf stars that do not give a damn,I cannot, now I see them, sayI missed one terribly all day.Were all stars to disappear or die,I should learn to look at an empty skyAnd feel its total dark sublime,Though this might take me a little time."
"Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?"
"Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear,Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.So shows a snowy dove trooping with crowsAs yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessA d my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
"No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece."
"Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else."
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