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Quotes by English Authors
"I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet."
"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."
"What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time."
"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;Lengthen night and shorten day;Every leaf speaks bliss to meFluttering from the autumn tree.I shall smile when wreaths of snowBlossom where the rose should grow;I shall sing when night's decayUshers in a drearier day."
"The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England."
"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
"My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning."
"But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue."
"Yes,' she thought, 'nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career-no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature their own, to foster and do good to."
"That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments."
"I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together."
"A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising."
"Are you entirely sure of that knot?' asked Morveer. 'There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop'.'Twenty-eight strides', said Friendly.'What?'The drop'.A brief pause, 'That is not helpful'."
"There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children."
"When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation."
"Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung."
"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."
"Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us-to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love."
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
"Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks."
"So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending."
"Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation."
"I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time."
"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
"To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike."
"If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different."
"What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?"
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