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Quotes by English Authors
"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
"An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him."
"I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult."
"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."
"I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty."
"We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see."
"Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing."
"I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow."
"Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright."
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
"I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster."
"In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought."
"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."
"Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right."
"Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice."
"What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?"
"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."
"I had in effect a user base eager to buy porn but no one to sell it to them."
"I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like."
"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"
"We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children."
"You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level."
"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."
"Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment."
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