Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

3818 English Quotes

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Almost Always Bit Felt
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

Day Ethic Every Every Single Hard
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

Bit Careful Instrument Voice
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Cookie Deeper Fortune Funnier
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Songs are more powerful than books.

Books More Powerful Songs
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

Living Long Long Time Scary
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

British Felt Identity Interested
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Anybody Changed Innovation Internet
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

Experience Far Had Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
His Made Mine Our
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any Dead Living Precious
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

After Altered Changed Color
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
Equal Faith Heaven I See
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Bloom Blooms Constantly Dark
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Bad Bad One Face Good
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Breed People Proud Sad
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Am Company Country Cured
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Chance Clock Day Half
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Admire Charity Erect Giving
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Against Beneath Crush Down
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Deeds Hide Honest Honest People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Another Choose Guide Leading
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Terror made me cruel.

Cruel Made Me Terror
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Beyond Cannot Everybody Existence
  Favorite Make wallpaper
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Something tonight Sorry Tomorrow Morning
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Kick Person Pants Responsible
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Self-taught Man Usually Poor
  Favorite Make wallpaper

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

School His dog Separated Dog
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Buy Love Pay Heavily.
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

Doctor Broke Two places Quit
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Future Unified Dream Baking
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Tomorrow Idlers Work Fools
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Soul Reflection Pile Inhabitant
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Poetry Prose Logic Mystery
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Beginning Great Matter Continuity
  Favorite Make wallpaper

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

City First Garden God
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Cheap Cure Endures Hope
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Despise Enough Few People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Eternal Always Past Come
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Curiosity Devotion Does Less
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Cheap Cure Endure Hope
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Changes Constant Nature Scene
  Favorite Make wallpaper

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Contempt Envy Grant High
  Favorite Make wallpaper

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Nice Always Life Faith
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Pain Love Mighty Miss
  Favorite Make wallpaper

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Books True Both Large
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Thing Most Hope All
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
Lead Best Come Books
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Own Age Come Known
  Favorite Make wallpaper