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Quotes by English Authors
"I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once."
"If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing."
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
"Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker."
"I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs."
"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
"I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason."
"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home."
"The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love."
"Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary."
"Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature."
"It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it."
"We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming."
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."
"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."
"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
"It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also."
"So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really."
"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."
"The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in."
"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."
"Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe."
"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training."
"I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out."
"It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about."
"Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!"The jaws of darkness do devour it up.So quick bright things come to confusion."
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