Authier Miller Quotes

#1. Humanity is always quick to condemn itself.

Vivian Eve

#2. Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

Harriet Martineau

#3. Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Will Self

#4. Nobody's really happy. And as soon as society realises that you can't trust anyone and that hardship is a natural part of existence, the sooner the therapists will realise that they are worthless! Sorry. They have worth deficit disorder!

Christopher Titus

#5. To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

#6. The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether - very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distractions of radio, but for the moment reading remained most people's principal method for filling idle time.

Bill Bryson

#7. 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.

George Osborne