English Quotes

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.