Gavs Quotes & Sayings

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep. — Tina Brown

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend. — Heloise D'Argenteuil

The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe. — John Prescott

If wishes were horses, beggers would ride — Joanne Harris

Hui Shi was set on using the calabash to hold water, never thinking that he could use water to hold the calabash. — Tsai Chih Chung

peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexed. — Stephen King

Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if they would only experiment with changing their ideas about vision. — Jacob Liberman

You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different. — George Orwell