English Quotes

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.

I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

I quite like ABBA.

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore I'm always pleasantly surprised.

I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

I love Diane Keaton's style in 'Annie Hall,' but I like to think my own style is like a cross between 'Annie Hall' and Prince.

I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

I highly recommend time to yourself.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.