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Quotes by English Authors
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
"Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear."
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."
"My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss."
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
"Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand--that and such hope as I bring."
"It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that."
"That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember."
"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."
"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
"Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone."
"I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness."
"It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else."
"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."
"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
"They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good."
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."
"It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity."
"Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes."
"That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer."
"We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world."
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
"There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you."
"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
"I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things."
"Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?"
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