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Quotes by English Authors
"Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past."
"Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name."
"I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"All his court were cast down in slumber, and all the fires faded and were quenched; but the Silmarils in the crown on Morgoth's head blazed forth suddenly with a radiance of white flame; and the burden of that crown and of the jewels bowed down his head, as though the world were set upon it, laden with a weight of care, of fear, and of desire, that even the will of Morgoth could not support. Then LAothien catching up her winged robe sprang into the air, and her voice came dropping down like rain into pools, profound and dark. She cast her cloak before his eyes, and set upon him a dream, dark as the outer Void where once he walked alone."
"I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression."
"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
"It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was."
"God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation."
"O weep for Adonis - He is dead.' 'Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life."
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
"If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in."
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
"For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few."
"Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react."
"Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers."
"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up."
"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
"When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one."
"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts."
"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."
"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."
"You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests."
"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences."
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