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Quotes by English Authors
"The way I write, words can means lots of different things."
"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."
"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."
"But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn."
"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."
"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale."
"Athens the eye of Greece mother of arts And eloquence."
"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population."
"However long the song is was how long it took us to write it."
"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
"Danger past, God is forgotten."
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."
"I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism."
"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."
"You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me."
"Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I."
"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."
"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist."
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
"Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day,Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play:How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie,How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry."
"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."
"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare."
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