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Quotes by English Authors
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
"Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together."
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
"I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor."
"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
"Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true."
"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
"Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between."
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
"And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens."
"The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."
"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."
"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
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