Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by English Authors

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

I love mixing in high street stuff and vintage.

Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

The harder you try, the better the impression you set on the people around you.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

Fashion is a reflection of the time.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

I will never have anything that is remotely technical near my bath time. I completely zone out and stare up at the ceiling. For me, it's like a form of meditation. It's a time where I can just actually turn off.

The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.

One person's car is another person's scenery.

Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.