A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.


Algernon Sydney

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I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
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Gardens are a form of autobiography.
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I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspirat...
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As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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SYDNEY POLLACK
Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogar...
SYDNEY POLLACK
When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.
SYDNEY POLLACK
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
SYDNEY SMITH
That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
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I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, rem...
SYDNEY SMITH
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
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American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from ...
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The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ...
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There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.
SYDNEY POLLACK
Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
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I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
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There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, ...
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SYDNEY POLLACK
At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone ...
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What you don't know would make a great book.
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At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or w...
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By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need ...
SYDNEY POLLACK
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
SYDNEY SMITH
The essence to me of all good drama is argument.
SYDNEY POLLACK
Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thi...
SYDNEY POLLACK
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of exist...
SYDNEY SMITH
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SYDNEY MADWED
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the k...
SYDNEY BRENNER
I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way ...
SYDNEY POLLACK
Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of we...
SYDNEY POLLACK
The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of ...
SYDNEY WAYSER
Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
SYDNEY POLLACK
No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.
SYDNEY POLLACK
Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.
SYDNEY POLLACK
Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would re...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG
What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the ...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG
Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn'...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG
Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brookly...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SYDNEY SMITH
It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you...
SYDNEY POLLACK
Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole.
SYDNEY SMITH
I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I ca...
SYDNEY BRENNER
For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended u...
SYDNEY POLLACK
I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school...
SYDNEY BRENNER
We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you k...
SYDNEY POLLACK
I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begi...
SYDNEY BRENNER
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is gen...
SYDNEY SMITH
The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...
SYDNEY SMITH
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon
SYDNEY SMITH
There is not the least use in preaching to anyone, unless you chance to catch them ill.
SYDNEY SMITH
We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today.
SYDNEY SMITH
He deserves to be preached to death by wild curates
SYDNEY SMITH
What you don't know would make a great book.
SYDNEY SMITH
I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together
SYDNEY SMITH
Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today
SYDNEY SMITH
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave
SYDNEY SMITH
Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed
SYDNEY SMITH
For God's sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and de...
SYDNEY SMITH
The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool
SYDNEY SMITH
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
SYDNEY SMITH
They wanted to help for [surgery costs] and anything that would help me, like glasses. It was so sup...
SYDNEY SMITH
I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so
SYDNEY SMITH
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand...
SYDNEY SMITH