English Quotes

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

I'm always being inspired .

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

I'm being honest, I say what I think.

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.