Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Prior

They talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Matthew Prior

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Matthew Arnold

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Kingsley Amis

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

Kingsley Amis

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

Kingsley Amis

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

Kingsley Amis

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Kingsley Amis

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Orlando Cepeda

He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.

I think by and large, 10-codes have seen better days, ... We use a lot of plain English in the sheriff's office.

David Gower

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

Glasser is a tough match up. He can be hard to handle. English is just steady in there.

Daniel Tammet

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

Doug Larson

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur

Saul Rubinek

I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.

I wished him good luck. He's a good manager and his English is better than I thought.

Gavin Bryars

I would also like the soloist to feel happy to put it in front of the public, because in the end he's on the firing line, not me.

J. C. Watts

I worked in L.A. for 25 years, ... I played oboe, English horn, piccolo, flute, clarinet. But what happens when you do that is you spend your practice time on instruments you are weaker on to make them stronger. The instruments you are strong on become weaker. At some point, you end up in a mush of mediocrity. I was working for quantity, and I wanted to get back to my primary interest, which was to play jazz on the saxophone.

Thomas Shadwell

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

John Milton

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Jeremy Bentham

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Jeremy Bentham

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

John Galsworthy

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

J. G. Ballard

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

Francis Quarles

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Francis Quarles

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Carice van Houten

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.