Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Charles Reade

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Joanna Trollope

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

Mark Haddon

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

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.

Frederick Marryat

It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

Eden Phillpotts

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon parted.