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Quotes by English Authors
"Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ."
"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."
"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."
"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!"
"A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one."
"The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned."
"I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all."
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