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Quotes by English Authors
"The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem."
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
"The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas."
"To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response."
"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."
"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
"Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that."
"THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!"
"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators."
"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
"A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles."
"I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen."
"Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever."
"That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour."
"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses."
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"
"So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature."
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful."
"It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it."
"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."
"It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them."
"Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."
"The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom."
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
"I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people."
"When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and fine we are... this."
"For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been needed. Sometimes they need to help some poor soul through the final hours, help them to find the door, not to get lost in the dark."
"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
"So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different."
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