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Quotes by English Authors
"The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing."
"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people."
"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."
"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."
"The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of."
"Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state."
"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"
"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."
"I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else."
"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."
"In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!"
"In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility."
"Love in a hut with water and a crust Is - Love forgive us! - cinders ashes dust."
"The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected."
"What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?"
"A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier."
"When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk. 'Meretrix'! This was none of your mensa-a-table, this was a flash from a forbidden planet, and it was everywhere. History was sex, French was sex, art was sex, the Bible, poetry, penfriends, games, music, everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but not really sex, not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be but couldn't be at one and the same time - I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all."
"It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel."
"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."
"I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time."
"I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal."
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