Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Aphra Behn

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

John Ciardi

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

John Ruskin

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

Brenda Blethyn

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

Brenda Blethyn

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

Brenda Blethyn

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.

Anthony Trollope

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

Anthony Trollope

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Steven Gerrard

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.

Om Puri

Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.

George Crabbe

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.

George Crabbe

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

George Crabbe

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

Gavin Bryars

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

Gavin Bryars

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

Tom Wolfe

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'

Syd Barrett

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

Sid Vicious

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

Tony Visconti

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

James Fenton

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

Mireille Guiliano

In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Dodie Smith

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Dodie Smith

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.