Quotes by British Authors - Page 10

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling
A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.
Rudyard Kipling
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean splendid and sordid infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme as great as a man some think even better.
Virginia Woolf
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think feel experience with a man they are in love with is still very small.
Doris Lessing
In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron
Men know that women are an overmatch for them and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Samuel Johnson
Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women at any rate in childbirth.
Bertrand Russell
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
Compton Mackenzie
What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Robert Southey
She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.
Anthony Delano
I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.
John Keats
My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
Nancy Lady Astor
Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
Aldous Huxley
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Nicol Williamson
Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
Germaine Greer
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are perhaps the most discussed animal in the universe?
Virginia Woolf
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
A woman the more careful she is about her face is commonly the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya Stark
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
Polly Toynbee
In the sex-war thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said we have still to admit with Byron that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty deceit and revenge is set alight it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.
Cyril Connolly
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.
Alexander Pope
True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Lionel Strachey
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I wish I knew the good of wishing.
Henry S. Leigh
If it's me against 48 I feel sorry for the 48.
Margaret Thatcher
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
Princess Anne
No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.
Charles James Fox
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
John Russell
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
William Temple
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Lord Byron
Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea!
Lord Alfred Tennyson
If Winter comes can Spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Samuel Johnson
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.
Lord Chesterfield
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service
In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill
All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.
Alexander Pope
In every mess I find a friend In every port a wife.
Charles Dibdin
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?
Lord Byron
A miss for pleasure and a wife for breed.
John Gay
My dear my better half.
Philip Sidney
Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson
When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
W.H. Auden
Westward Ho!
George Peele
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S Eliot
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.
T.S Eliot
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.
Aldous Huxley
One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas
Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.
Lord Byron
Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
Robert Southey
Welcome as the flowers in May.
Walter Scott
When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather.
Samuel Johnson