Quotes by english authors

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five. Mick Jagger

Singing Rather Dead Than Forty-Five Satisfaction

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope. Mick Jagger

Hope Anarchy Slight Only

For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Natalie Dormer

Journey Me Woman Courage Strong Fear Fearless About Absence Overcomes Overcoming Terrified Interesting Then Who Play Necessarily

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. Noel Coward

Me Memory Fact Consult Like Often In Fact Elephant Elephants

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again. Noel Coward

Sometimes Thought Marrying Again Then

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. Noel Coward

All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want. Noreena Hertz

Focus Outcome Take Bias Want Anything Information Us Show Agree

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. Oliver Cromwell

You Integrity Brainy Will Never Deceive May Subtlety

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose. Oliver Cromwell

Love Dark Walk Providence Often Doth Who Dispose

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. P. G. Wodehouse

Funny Best Memories Restaurant Cheap Like Soup Stir Them

I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all. Pattie Boyd

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. Paul Greengrass

Wisdom Difficult Give Inspiring Remembering Painful

Think globally, act locally. Paul McCartney

Think Locally Globally Act

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Paul McCartney

Death Rumors Exaggerated Been Greatly

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating. Paula Radcliffe

People Training Reflection Achieve Cheating Important Field Worldwide Athletes See True Know Sport Coming Where Swayed Working Stand Youngsters Working Hard Hard Who Level Level Playing Field Compete Playing Playing Field

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley

World Beauty Hidden Objects Poetry Lifts Veil Makes Were Familiar

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. Peter Ustinov

Faith Nature Democracy Corruption Our Way Restoring

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. Peter Ustinov

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. Philip James Bailey

Life God Good Great Thoughts Man Try Mind Thought Breath Good Deeds Think Hath He Most Him Himself His Heaven Act Show Deeds Each Each Man