English Quotes

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

Who has not served cannot command.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

Patience is the best medicine.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

A good husband makes a good wife.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Deed, not words shall speak me.

The coward's weapon, poison.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.