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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”
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“No one man is superior to the game.”
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“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”
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“Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.”
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“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.”
Source : Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.51, Ivan R. Dee
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“Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.”
Source : Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.49, Anchor
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“Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.”
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“The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.”
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“I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.”
Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008. 
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“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”
