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Quotes by English Authors
"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
"You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them."
"I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause."
"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
"Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together."
"It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species."
"In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny."
"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."
"This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped."
"Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news."
"The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond."
"It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."
"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."
"There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well."
"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability."
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour.""
"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."
"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two."
"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."
"Prospect is often better than possession."
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom."
"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
"I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'"
"The cells smell is a great feature of French prisons. Ours in No.44 was one of those fine broad-shouldered up and coming young smells, which stand on both feet and look the world in the eye. We became very fond and proud of it."
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