Quotes by English/England authors (page 10)

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret"

Thomas Harrison

"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me"

John Dryden, Poet

"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest"

John Gay, Poet

"Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise"

John Webster, Playwright

"Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old"

Robert Herrick, Poet

"Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"The weather is like the government, always in the wrong"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

"Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!"

Malcolm Arnold, Composer

"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful"

Vita Sackville-West, Novelist

"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind"

Brian May, Musician

"They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect"

Benny Hill, Comedian

"You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones"

Keith Richards, Musician

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them"

A. A. Milne, Author

"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials"

Ronald Knox, Theologian

"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"Better late than never"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"Football kicks you in the teeth"

Dave Jones, Coach

"Judas heard all Christ's sermons"

Thomas Goodwin, Clergyman

"The world knows nothing of its greatest men"

Henry Taylor, Dramatist

"Some things have to be believed to be seen"

Ralph Hodgson, Poet

"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but"

John Berger, Artist

"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping"

Daphne du Maurier, Novelist

"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all"

Bernard Levin, Journalist

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