Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agatha Christie

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Jan Morris

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Charles Caleb Colton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

John Wilmot

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

Mike Butcher

We're looking for a guy that can step it up.

Denis Norden

I've seen radio, variety, revue, pretty well all of it, and of all of them, I have the greatest regard for variety as family entertainment.

Gerald Brenan

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

Gerald Brenan

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

Margaret Cavendish

And though my father was not a peer of the realm, yet there were few peers who had much greater estates or lived more noble therewith.

John Wilmot

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

Joseph C. Lincoln

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.

Frank Muir

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Mike Butcher

You give them recommendations. You throw different angles at them where, hopefully, they can get something out of it.

Nigel Kneale

Certainly, it isn't a ghost story where people go into a haunted house. There have been two or three made on that basis, but I didn't want to do that.

Agatha Christie

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

Piers Anthony

Much of what is published is actually science fantasy, seeming possible but actually impossible, such as faster than light space travel.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

John Aubrey

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

John Gould

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

Ada Cambridge

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

William Godwin

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Richard Whately

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Richard Whately

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

Vera Brittain

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

William Godwin

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

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.