E.L. James Quotes

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.

I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

We must take our friends as they are.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes.

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote?

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.

As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.

The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.