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Quotes by English Authors
"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
"The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance."
"He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous."
"The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life."
"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose."
"I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky."
"The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match."
"They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market."
"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
"I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it."
"It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal."
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
"Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."
"The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and singing 'Yellow Submarine' at the top of my voice in the back row of the coach on school trips. They belong to me, not to me and Laura, or me and Charlie, or me and Alison Ashworth, and though they'll make me feel something, they won't make me feel anything bad."
"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. - December 12, 2004"
"There should be no boundary to human endeavor."
"I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see,As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me."
"Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet."
"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."
"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness."
"A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."
"He willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else."
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