Perfide Albion Quotes & Sayings

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK. — Thom Mayne

Science is practical philosophy. — Rene Descartes

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. — Erich Fromm

Those in whom the faculty of reason is predominant, and who most skillfully dispose their thoughts with a view to render them clear and intelligible, are always the best able to persuade others of the truth of what they lay down, though they should speak only in the language of Lower Brittany, and be wholly ignorant of the rules of rhetoric; and those whose minds are stored with the most agreeable fancies, and who can give expression to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony, are still the best poets, though unacquainted with the art of poetry. — Rene Descartes

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things. — C.S. Lewis

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity. — Sivananda

The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is. — E. M. Forster

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery