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Quotes by English Authors
"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."
"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
"It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade."
"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."
"I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further, they seemed to be an organic combination of her mind and personality, whereas mine struck me as functionally separate, straining to describe a character I hoped to grow into."
"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible."
"It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies."
"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."
"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
"Great writers are the saints for the godless."
"Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other."
"The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints."
"The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end."
"I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't."
"Human improvement is from within outward."
"For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King."
"What is it the Bible teaches us? - repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith."
"Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another."
"When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's . . . on morals."
"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well."
"I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!"
"All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be."
"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
"If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."
"Oh golly, Brer Fox, your forthright assertion-that evolutionary biology disproves the idea of a creator God-jeopardises the teaching of biology in science class, since teaching that would violate the separation of church and state!' Right. You also ought to soft-pedal physiology, since it declares virgin birth impossible."
"Friend is the one who showes the way and walks a piece of road with us."
"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."
"I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives."
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
"Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, [Marvin] was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby."
"Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people."
"Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose."
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