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Quotes by English Authors
"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."
"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."
"Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life."
"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."
"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did."
"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me."
"My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities."
"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises."
"Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery."
"I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort."
"I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year."
"At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too."
"The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them."
"There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs."
"He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection."
"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt."
"It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show."
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."
"When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'."
"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man."
"I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility."
"I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul."
"Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses."
"I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me."
"To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure."
"Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence."
"I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people."
"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
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