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Quotes by English Authors
"Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men."
"I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair."
"Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is."
"I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular."
"Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world."
"Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that."
"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid."
"I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand."
"Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away."
"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that."
"Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there."
"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
"We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions."
"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
"Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important."
"Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being."
"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."
"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside."
"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."
"Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong."
"Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope."
"Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest."
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