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Quotes by English Authors
"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."
"I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure."
"I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison."
"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
"The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary."
"I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry."
"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
"I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be."
"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."
"I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful."
"A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me."
"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye."
"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
"If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer."
"The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play."
"To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people."
"The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians."
"When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more."
"Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm."
"I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction."
"I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously."
"The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class."
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
"But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty."
"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep."
"Make the doors upon a woman's wit,and it will out at the casement;shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."
"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."
"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."
"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."
"Pornography is a satire on human pretensions."
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