English Journalist Quotes

I don't want to sound like I'm bragging but I think I've finally managed to play the record at the right speed.

What Diana seemed to have forgotten, and most people were too dazzled by her performance to recall, was the traditional fate of the women with whom she had chosen to bracket herself... they all wind up young, beautiful and dead.

The suffragettes were triumphant. Woman's place was in the gaol.

Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Anthony Daniels

No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

Robert Smith Surtees

For a good man to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter on a strait and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license.

John Middleton Murry

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

This is Soho, where anything goes, just make sure it's not your wallet.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

Malcolm Muggeridge

How long can a coincidence extend before it ceases to be one? Does coincidence have to be momentary? How long is the moment, the ongoing moment?

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

Anthony Burgess

He who reflects on the number of lives that have been sacrificed to sustain his own, should enquire by what the account has been balanced, and whether his life is become proportionately of more value by the exercise of virtue and by the superior happiness which he has communicated to [more] reasonable beings.

John Hawkesworth

We shall lodge at the sign of the Grave, you say;
Well, the road is a long one we trudge, my friend,
So why should we grieve at the break of the day?
Let us sing, let us drink, let us love, let us play,—
We can keep our sights for the journey's end.

Percy Addleshaw

Parapet, buttress, and arch and pier Beyond are as sound as ever! Now show us thy skill, Sir Engineer, For a roadway over the River!

Sebastian Evans

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

I am not angry. I am just disappointed that, once again, a hotel has tried to convince me it will move heaven and earth to ensure I am comfortable when, in reality, it won't even pass me the coffee pot!

The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just to President Saddam but to the rest of the world. We are the superpower, those explosions said last night. This is how we do business.

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.

William Cobbett

We hope that Wisden is a constant, helping the reader to make sense of it all and providing a little contemplative calm.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

Cricket's all right in spite of the newspapers, but the trouble is that three quarters of us don't know how to use our own gifts.

The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.

John Alfred Langford