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Quotes by English Authors
"Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together."
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
"The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond."
"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
"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."
"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 glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
"Prospect is often better than possession."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"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."
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."
"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country."
"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."
"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
"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?'"
"To get a hold on boys you must be their friend."
"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."
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
"I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose."
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