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Quotes by English Authors
"As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted."
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."
"Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing--turn your toes out when you walk---And remember who you are!"
"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much."
"There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid."
"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
"Trust is like glass. Lovely, but only a fool rests lots of weight on it."
"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."
"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."
"Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be."
"Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion."
"If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness."
"Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead."
"As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."
"People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not."
"Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry."
"The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity."
"Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty."
"You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options."
"I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime."
"It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give."
"It is thus that man, with fervent imagination, can endue the rough stone with loveliness, forge the mis-shapen metal into a likeness of all that wins our hearts by exceeding beauty, and breathe into a dissonant trump soul-melting harmonies. The mind of man-that mystery, which may lend arms against itself, teaching vain lessons of material philosophy, but which, in the very act, shows its power to play with all created things, adding the sweetness of its own essence to the sweetest, taking its ugliness from the deformed."
"Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting."
"I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one."
"If I am destined to be happy with you here-how short is the longest Life-I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you for ever."
"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breedsAlong the pebbled shore of memory!Many old rotten-timber'd boats there beUpon thy vaporous bosom, magnifiedTo goodly vessels; many a sail of pride,And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry."
"Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him."
"And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters run,/ And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;/ She had no knowledge when the day was done,/ And the new morn she saw not: but in peace/ Hung over her sweet basil evermore,/ And moisten'd it with tears unto the core."
"Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it."
"The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there."
"By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."
"I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."
"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."
"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
"While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three."
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