English Quotes

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?