W. L. George Quotes

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

One big theme for me is that we have got to move from an economy built on debt to one where we save and invest in the future.

Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.

I very much support financial education in schools.

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.

No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.

I believe in public services.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced to make that choice we would leave the EU.

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.