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Quotes by English Authors
"Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy."
"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."
"This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously."
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
"I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?"
"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."
"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."
"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."
"What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man."
"Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world."
"It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts."
"Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out."
"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
"The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it."
"Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive."
"I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away."
"I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are."
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."
"I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should."
"I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation."
"Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along."
"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so - in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own."
"I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."
"The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet."
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