Quotes by British Authors - Page 131

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.
Dean Cavanagh
The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand
Dean Cavanagh
Good choice,' Laura Said. 'Our neighbour, Mrs Crabtree, came round this morning and she put it best. Her theory is that fame is like a bubble. It looks gorgeous on the outside, as if it's been painted with pretty colours, but when you pop it there's nothing there. She said that life, love and friendship are what matters, and that what you do is more important than what you show.
Lauren St. John
I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.
Salman Rushdie
...as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.
Angela Carter
This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that "feeling special" was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life.
Lionel Shriver
A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you’re famous, it’s as if you’ve got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.
Heathcote Williams
Vell, Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?
Douglas Adams
Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of twenty struggling writers one could name? Of course not. He's a clever, prolific man; so are they. But he began with money and friends; he came from Oxford into the thick of advertised people; his name was mentioned in print six times a week before he had written a dozen articles. This kind of thing will become the rule. Men won't succeed in literature that they may get into society, but will get into society that they may succeed in literature.
George Gissing
Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Henry Fielding
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.
Virginia Woolf
If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.
Audrey Hepburn
Think champagne, drink champagne!
Ellen Dean
A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
J.G. Ballard
Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.
J.K. Rowling
Being famous is wicked, but being normal is better.
Rupert Grint
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
Lionel Shriver
I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a waste of time. I might as well have studied Klingon.
Susan Lodge
My mouth went dry as I tried to remember all of Poppie’s tips for kissing over the years. She told me no guy wanted a girl with a mouth as wide as a guppy, who sucked his tongue with the force of a Dyson vacuum cleaner first time, or licked him to death like an overeager puppy. She’d told me to just purse my lips and let him lead and take control. Don’t slobber, don’t slobber, don’t slobber, I chanted to myself as he got closer and closer
Charlotte Fallowfield
Some people just don’t find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.
Charlotte Fallowfield
Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.
Barney Norris
That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.
Barney Norris
The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.
Barney Norris
Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it's always with you the rest of your life.
Barney Norris
Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.
Barney Norris
The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without any warning. They hang in the air like ghosts, their mouths sewn up forever. They will never be able to speak, but if it was you who put them there, you will always be forced to see them.
Barney Norris
One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.
Barney Norris
The old are a regular subject for sympathy.
Barney Norris
The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.
Barney Norris
It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.
Lisa Jewell
Some guys get fifteen years, others get life.So death for Edbut not for everyone.Cos it all depends on who you kill and where you kill them too.Like,don't shoot a white cop in Walker Country, Texas. If that's your plan, do it in Arlington, New York- no needles of electric chairs there.Just doesn't seen fair to me.
Sarah Crossan
How can we who are so weak in ourselves, so inferior in power to the enemies confronting us, bear up under our trials which are so numerous, so protracted, so crushing? We could not, and therefore Divine grace has provided for us an all-sufficient Helper. Without His aid we had long since succumbed, mastered by our trials. Hope looks forward to the Glory to come; in the weary interval of waiting, the Spirit supports our poor hearts and keeps grace alive within us.
Arthur W. Pink
She had always suffered from a curious fear of what was going to happen round the next corner. Even when life went smoothly and nothing occurred to justify her vague apprehensions, they did not altogether disperse. She had tried to face these fears and conquer them, but she could never do so entirely, she could only strain forward into the darkness of the future, expecting and fearing the unknown. She was brave in the face of dangers she could see, but she could not arm herself against shadows. These fears were her weakness.
D.E. Stevenson
There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.
Zadie Smith
If some talents were withheld, the Withholder knows why. He has done all things well.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.
Michel Faber
Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.
Jude Morgan
No one wants to believe they are weak, but we all have weakness inside us. We have strength, too, but there are times when the circumstances in our lives are so overwhelming that we easily succumb to that weakness
Sarah A. Denzil
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
Agatha Christie
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
Kate Atkinson
Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day.
Elizabeth George
Champagne morning, sleepless grin, setting off and settling in. Today feels good.
Alex Gaskarth
It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.
Fennel Hudson
Red's had her day. It's time to give pink a go.
Anthony T.Hincks
A little orange will put a spring into your day.
Anthony T.Hincks
Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serener musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time. A black hole sucks up its surroundings and even light never escapes. Better then to ask no questions? Better then to be a contented pig than an unhappy Socrates? Since factory farming is tougher on pigs than it is on philosophers I'll take a chance.
Jeanette Winterson
Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
Jasper Fforde
If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.
Terry Eagleton
Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.
Kate Mosse
How could he mean so much to me in such a short time?
E.L. James
The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.
Mark Forsyth
It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.
Rebecca Stott
More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat?
Gemma Malley
How can I find a way to overcome this?’ is a much better question than ‘Why is my life so bad?’It’s the questions we ask ourselves that will determine how we live our life.
Steven Aitchison
It’s not the quality of the answers that changes our lives, it’s the quality of the question
Steven Aitchison
Difficult questions can have simple answers.
Zia Haider Rahman
Bit of a limp conclusion if you ask me,” Osric growled. “You academics are always so timid with your words. Your conclusion sounds like a different form of the question.” “And so it is, Osric,” Fergal said with a chuckle. “Slightly whittled, sharper, but it is still a question. In time it will be sharp enough to impale the answer.
Jonathan Renshaw
The right questions help you discover the right answers. Be careful what questions you are asking yourself…
Steven Aitchison
We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.
Patrick Ness
Perhaps they are singing songs to you,' he said, 'and I just think they’re asking me questions.' He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.
Douglas Adams