Samuel Quotes

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.

A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer.

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.

Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?