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Quotes by English Authors
"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."
"I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor."
"A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game."
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
"Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws."
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
"If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)"
"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."
"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him."
"To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of."
"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
"Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease."
"Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries."
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
"Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it."
"The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband."
"The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces."
"You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists."
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."
"The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value."
"For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better."
"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."
"I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes."
"Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time."
"What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?"
"People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'"
"My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss."
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
"On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it."
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
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