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Quotes by English Authors
"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
"Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work."
"Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth."
"I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored."
"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."
"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."
"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."
"Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship."
"And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."
"To find a man's true character, play golf with him."
"My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you."
"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."
"There is a place called 'heaven' where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet."
"Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ."
"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
"Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain."
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding."
"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."
"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
"The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie."
"I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."
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