Quotes by English/England authors (page 21)

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery"

Harold Wilson, Statesman

"Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start"

Harold Wilson, Statesman

"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"Everyone is more or less mad on one point"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news"

John Le Carre, Author

"I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention"

John Le Carre, Author

"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing"

John Le Carre, Author

"Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that"

John Le Carre, Author

"And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind"

Thomas Shadwell, Dramatist

"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level"

John Le Carre, Author

"Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book"

John Le Carre, Author

"A committee is an animal with four back legs"

John Le Carre, Author

"By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way"

John Le Carre, Author

"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do"

George Martin, Producer

"Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really"

George Martin, Producer

"I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way"

Isabelle Eberhardt, Explorer

"And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe"

George Martin, Producer

"Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects"

George Martin, Producer

"We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens"

George Martin, Producer

"Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great"

Clement Attlee, Leader

"One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st"

Clement Attlee, Leader

"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

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