Cherwell School Quotes & Sayings

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. — Samuel Johnson

God does not exist, as neither does our hereafter, that second bogey being as easily disposed of as the first. Indeed, imagine yourself just dead - and suddenly wide awake in Paradise where, wreathed in smiles, your dear dead welcome you.
Now tell me, please, what guarantee do you possess that those beloved ghosts are genuine; that it is really your dear dead mother and not some petty demon mystifying you, masked as your mother and impersonating her with consummate art and naturalness? There is the rub, there is the horror; the more so as the acting will go on and on, endlessly; never, never, never, never, never will your soul in that other world be quite sure that the sweet gentle spirits crowding about it are not fiends in disguise, and forever, and forever, and forever shall your soul remain in doubt, expecting every moment some awful change, some diabolical sneer to disfigure the dear face bending over you. — Vladimir Nabokov

In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone. — Al Sharpton

Sluts don't have a choice, darling. And you've forfeited yours. — Sara Craven

You don't need to change everything in your life instantly. All you need is one positive thought. — Bryant McGill

Freedom is the first condition of growth. What you do not make free, will never grow. — Swami Vivekananda

'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say. — Angus Wilson

Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax, etc., to unfold in full richness. — Johan Huizinga

I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it. — Franny Armstrong

His gaze burned into mine, like he could see past my eyes into parts of me no one had ever seen, and I knew I was seeing the same in him. No one else had ever seen him so vulnerable before, like if I pushed him away, he might crumble into pieces that could never be put together again. Yet there was strength, too. He was strong beneath that fragile need, and I knew that I could never fall with him next to me. If I tripped, he would catch me. If I lost my balance, he would find it. — Rachel Vincent

The world has a habit of going on. — Woodrow Wilson

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings — Jocelyn Murray

Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim. — Marvin J. Ashton

I want you to want me the way I want you. I want you to come to me and tell me that. Then I want you to show me it's true.
- Duke Kylemore to Verity Ashton - — Anna Campbell