English Journalist Quotes

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.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Isabella Beeton

Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.

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

If your opponent imagines that because you are a woman you're easy to bluff, that you'd never bluff yourself and that you can be pushed around, you can exploit those assumptions.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.