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Quotes by English Authors
"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."
"Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."
"No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings."
"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.""Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that."
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
"No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion."
"At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you."
"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged."
"I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff."
"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."
"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
"Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed."
"Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology."
"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."
"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
"There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction."
"The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone."
"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."
"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."
"But men are men the best sometimes forget."
"One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun."
"Now is the winter of our discontent."
"I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another."
"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."
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