English Quotes

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

I didn't really want to give up music.

I can never predict what's going to happen.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.