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Quotes by English Authors
"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions."
"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."
"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
"People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited."
"Misfortunes tell us what fortune is."
"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."
"You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that."
"We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once."
"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook."
"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."
"The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves."
"I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape."
"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 things that make me happy most are my family and working."
"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."
"I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to."
"I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter."
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
"The oldest theory of contract is I think negative."
"Less abject but more shocking was the letter from the Founder of the Calvary Tabernacle Association in Oklahoma: Professor Einstein, I believe that every Christian in America will answer you, 'We will not give up our belief in our God and his son Jesus Christ, but we invite you, if you do not believe in the God of the people of this nation, to go back where you came from.' I have done everything in my power to be a blessing to Israel, and then you come along and with one statement from your blasphemous tongue, do more to hurt the cause of your people than all the efforts of the Christians who..."
"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."
"There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa."
"Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God."
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