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Quotes by English Authors
"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 is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
"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."
"Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together."
"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 chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"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."
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."
"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."
"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?'"
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."
"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."
"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
"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 individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
"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."
"Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things."
"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."
"To get a hold on boys you must be their friend."
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
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