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Quotes by English Authors
"I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films."
"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musA d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die,To cease upon the midnight with no pain,While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!"
"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs."
"Free verse is like free love, it is a contradiction in terms."
"I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive."
"I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps."
"I still manage to spend around 40 hours a week at work but it is a lot more focused on what can make money as opposed to what makes me look good in the papers."
"And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say."
"They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me."
"The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads."
"I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything."
"Some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces ...."
"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."
"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most."
"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence."
"History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy."
"Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood."
"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead."
"I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally."
"Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance."
"It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point."
"I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways."
"The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom."
"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."
"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."
"I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard."
"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."
"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
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