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Quotes by English Authors
"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance."
"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."
"No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness."
"A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day."
"It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true."
"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."
"I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle."
"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough."
"We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently."
"I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything."
"The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this."
"There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment."
"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
"They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts."
"If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV."
"When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring."
"The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!"
"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
"Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor."
"No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him."
"I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered."
"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
"I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players."
"I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording."
"Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop."
"All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it."
"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions."
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