English Quotes

My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be.

Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result they want against Manchester United.

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.

To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.

Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.

Arguably, Blackburn have got the best forward line in the Premiership. There's no denying that.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.