Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Mortimer

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Jonathan Coe

Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wife's income all that time, which wasn't very great.

Joanna Trollope

It's not so much hearth as family life which is where we all, I'm sure, learn (or fail to learn!) all our life skills for the future.

Rumer Godden

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Thomas Hardy

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Jean Rhys

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Charles McCabe

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

Charles McCabe

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

Jonathan Coe

So no, I'm pleased if it's been influential for many readers, but at the time I didn't even know that it was going to have any readers.

Kingsley Amis

No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Richard Horwell

It was random, indiscriminate violence for what can only have been pleasure.

Dan Casey

It?s a very well-balanced team, and they?re a pleasure to coach.

Alan Alda

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure