89 Quotes About English-writer
- Author Joseph C. Lincoln
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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.
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- Author Charlie Miller
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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.
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- Author Frank Muir
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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
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- Author Harriet Martineau
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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- Author Jan Morris
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Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
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- Author Denis Norden
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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.
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- Author Samuel Pepys
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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.
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- Author Samuel Pepys
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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.
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- Author John Ruskin
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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