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Quotes by English Authors
"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
"I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged."
"We move between two darknesses."
"My own mind is my own church."
"In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of."
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so."
"But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association."
"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves."
"He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period."
"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."
"I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time."
"To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying,The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;For our days are ending and our years failing.I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!"
"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
"I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes."
"I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year."
"The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical."
"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch."
"It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that."
"England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield."
"The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife."
"Science explained people, but could not understand them."
"Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another."
"But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth."
"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."
"All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year."
"Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair."
"Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job."
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