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Quotes by English Authors
"Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?"
"The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable."
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
"Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?"
"He is idle that might be better employed."
"I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents."
"A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."
"You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place."
"Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform."
"In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior."
"Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate."
"Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation."
"Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute."
"People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't."
"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
"And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater."
"Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth."
"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."
"That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
"That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it."
"It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do."
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