Author Nationality

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

Nationality : British

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Nationality : British

I’ve broken my nose, I’ve broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

Nationality : British

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Nationality : British

Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again.

Nationality : British

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Nationality : British

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Nationality : British

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Nationality : British

To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.

Nationality : British

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

Nationality : British