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Quotes by English Authors
"There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol."
"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em."
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
"On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing."
"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions."
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
"Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer."
"Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful."
"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."
"The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it."
"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."
"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them."
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
"We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once."
"The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it."
"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so."
"We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense."
"The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account."
"They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up."
"Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated."
"The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves."
"I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape."
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
"Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity."
"Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle."
"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."
"Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love."
"I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God."
"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
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