Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
– Emma Thompson
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- The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
- It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel. – Kate Atkinson
- Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life. – Fred Whitehead
- the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. – Oscar Wilde
- Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin. – Hunter Shea
- Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. – Aravind Adiga
- You create what you speak. So, speak a better world.Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak yourdespair and let it lead you back to your truth. – Rachel C Weingarten
- Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. – John Bunyan
- Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. – Jeffrey Eugenides
- It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
- Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
- Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought. – Marcel Proust
- Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand. – Robert Jervis
- how much he loved being alone except when he didn’t, except when it got to be too much? – Elizabeth Graver
- The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists. – Neville Weston
- To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago. – Jack Lynch
- We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. – William Golding
- Because he was English and that’s what the English do under stress: they drink tea. – Cynthia Hand
- I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats. – Emma Brockes
- Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century. – Helen Thompson
- I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally. – Hunter S Thompson
- It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway. – Santosh Kalwar
- Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope. – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
- Many people just think they understand English, remember. – Emma Wagner
- What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare. – Robert Farrar Capon
- Tomorrow can take me,- he said. -œI don’t need today anyway. – Shannon A Thompson
- She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play – Thomas Hardy
- People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium. – George F Will
- I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them. – Emma Thompson
- I don’t have technique because I never learnt any. – Emma Thompson
- I ask Laurie if it’s possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I’ve never produced a movie. – Emma Thompson
- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. – Thomas Hardy
- Sorry’ is, indeed, one of the most difficult and most powerful words in the English language, provided one can feel and say it at the same time. – Uday Mukerji
- Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language. – Terry Jones
- We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy. – Cristina Garca
- Energy doesn’t communicate in English, French, Chinese or Swahili, but it does speak clearly – Elaine Seiler
- Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory . – Craig Thompson
- We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn’t real. – Ann Brashares
- The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot. – Adrienne Rich