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Quotes by English Authors
"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure."
"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."
"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find."
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
"The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously."
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
"Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed."
"As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her forehead."
"If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine."
"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
"A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing."
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
"Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true."
"The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives. They have both locked themselves up in two boxes, painted inside with the sun and stars; they are both unable to get out, the one into the health and happiness of heaven, the other even into the health and happiness of the earth."
"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
"My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really."
"Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries."
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."
"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."
"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better."
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
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