Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Malory

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.

Mary Shelley

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

Lewis Carroll

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Lewis Carroll

'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

Henry Williamson

Long ago, when moose roamed in the forest at the mountain of the Two Rivers, otters had followed eels migrating from ponds and swamps to the seas.

Mary Shelley

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Mary Shelley

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Mary Shelley

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

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.

Evelyn Waugh

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Penelope Lively

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.

Penelope Lively

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

Augustine Birrell

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Ann Macbeth

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

Ann Macbeth

We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.

J. K. Rowling

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

John Galsworthy

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