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Quotes by English Authors
"The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose."
"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
"No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green."
"I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings."
"Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted."
"Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment."
"If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards."
"Most of my time, energy and other resources I use to nurture my projects."
"Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever."
"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison."
"I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues."
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
"And Yarvi realized that Death does not bow to each person who passes her, does not sweep out her arm respectfully to show the way, speaks no profound words, unlocks no bolts. The key upon her chest is never needed, for the Last Door stands always open. She herds the dead through impatiently, needles of rank or fame or quality. She has an ever-lengthening queue to get through. A blind procession, inexhaustible."
"I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever."
"When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you " pull your beard, flick your face " to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor."
"In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable."
"Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom."
"A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it."
"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
"Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do."
"In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent."
"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it."
"One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case."
"I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal."
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."
"Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise."
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