James Hilton Quotes

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I've mentioned, and though I don't talk much about it, the chief thing I've asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.

It's a very remarkable story.""Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.