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Quotes by English Authors
"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."
"He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them."
"The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting."
"Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home."
"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
"It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual."
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
"I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is."
"A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere."
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
"It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers."
"When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right."
"As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty."
"I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time."
"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."
"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard."
"The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil."
"I'm a fucking coward.'Maybe.' Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. 'There's a hero. Tell me who's better off."
"When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue."
"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."
"Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back."
"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no."
"Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory."
"You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?"
"And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you."
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."
"Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception."
"Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is."
"Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it."
"Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession."
"His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape."
"He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it."
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