writer Quotes
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Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.
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Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
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England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
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Voting is a meaningless exercise. I’m not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don’t. Everything is done to you in this country.