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Quotes by English Authors
"I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort."
"But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays."
"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."
"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."
"So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition."
"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."
"How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question."
"I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?"
"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."
"No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction."
"It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice."
"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
"Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die."
"John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London."
"We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders."
"OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September."
"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
"Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one."
"Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt."
"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
"The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress."
"Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch."
"I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic."
"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone."
"The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities."
"Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile."
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."
"The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure."
"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."
"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."
"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."
"Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas."
"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."
"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."
"A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here."
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