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Quotes by English Authors
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."
"She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape."
"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
"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."
"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."
"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."
"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
"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?'"
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
"What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here."
"For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand."
"Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together."
"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
"I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go ."
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
"Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease."
"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race."
"The folly of one man is the fortune of another."
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
"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."
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