English Writer Quotations

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

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

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

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.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

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.

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

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

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

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

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

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

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

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

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

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

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

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

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

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

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

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

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

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

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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.

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

I find a welcome interest in the problems of everyday life. I find a humanity and a devotion to using thought to alleviate suffering.

He went on about monsters, sleeping in great caverns underground and especially under the sea, waiting for a chance to take over the surface world.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

I think women get a little crazier when they run in packs. They want to outdo each other.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

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

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

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.

Upon the sixth of April, Alexander the Great was born. Upon the same day he conquered Darius, won a great victory at sea, and died the same day.

Why by a book when you can join a library.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.

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

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

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

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

Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you can't.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

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.

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.

And though my brother Sir Thomas Lucas died not immediately of his wounds, yet a wound he received on his head in Ireland shortened his life.

And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find A wife I need not blush to show I've little further now to go.

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.

People get depressed and get attracted to different types of memes. You can trace some of this to how the biological hierarchy is set up.

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

This is the president who has said we are addicted to oil. But if this is the best we can do, we aren't going to get out of rehab.

As my mother and 1 were alone in the world, and as I was to be a business man, it was decided that I had better not waste time in going to college.

For it was not amorous love. I never was infected therewith. It is a disease, or a passion, or both - I only know by relation, no by experience.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

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

Then by good luck W. B. Yeats, liking my first book of verse, asked me to come and see him. I owe more to him than to any man living, and my intense admiration for his work was reinforced by my intense admiration for himself.

The contest took place at Dexter Park, before a vast crowd of spectators, the majority of whom looked to see the Nationals have almost a walk-over.

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies -- thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

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

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

The game was being sharply played on both sides, and I watched it with deeper interest than any previous ball match between clubs I had seen.

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

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

Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy that are preceded by a long Courtship.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.