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Quotes by English Authors
"No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them."
"I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions."
"When we first split up, he called me a stalker, but that's like an emotive word, "stalker", isn't it? I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door. And I only turned up at his work twice. Three times, if you count his Christmas party, which I don't, because he said he was going to take me to that anyway."
"I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV."
"I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology."
"A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!"
"What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?"
"He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back."
"I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush."
"It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it."
"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
"That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all."
"But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing."
"You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me."
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"
"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."
"Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life."
"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."
"As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country."
"In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar."
"Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules."
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
"The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay."
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