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Quotes by English Authors
"You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country."
"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy."
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
"I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it."
"From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing."
"A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect."
"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."
"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse."
"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."
"I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music."
"There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is not something I can decide to do as an act of will. I can decide to go to church and I can decide to recite the Nicene Creed, and I can decide to swear on a stack of bibles that I believe every word inside them. But none of that can make me actually believe it if I don't. Pascal's Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. And the God that you claim to believe in had better not be of the omniscient kind or he'd see through the deception."
"Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?"
"The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time."
"It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue."
"Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in."
"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."
"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
"There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it."
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."
"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride."
"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
"I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them."
"Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative."
"I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things."
"She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils. The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her. It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation."
"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."
"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done."
"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession."
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
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