Quotes by British Authors - Page 11

I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.
William Blake
Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place.
Alexander Pope
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Edward Moore
All wealth is the product of labor
John Locke
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
Samuel Johnson
Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.
Charles Caleb Colton
I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
Paul Getty
I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
Ben Jonson
Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold
The father of his country.
Francis Bailey
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law
War hath no fury like a noncombatant.
C.E. Montague
When after many battles past Both tir'd with blows make peace at last What is it after all the people get? Why! taxes widows wooden legs and debt.
Francis Moore
God how the dead men Grin by the wall Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball.
Alfred Noyes
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Duke of Wellington
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Duke of Wellington
Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.
Horatio Nelson
But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy.
Horatio Nelson
Men love war because it allows them to look serious because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.
John Fowles
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Boake Carter
There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy but by God they frighten me.
Duke of Wellington
It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.
Lewis Carroll
War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin
No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.
Winston Churchill
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
David Ormsby Gore
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Lewis Carroll
We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill
Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic the group-mind takes over.
Arthur Koestler
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
Alan Bennett
Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."
Winston Churchill
We are governed not by armies but by ideas.
Mona Caird
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me like wine through water and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Brontë
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger for them.
George Eliot
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
John Ruskin
It is in our idleness in our dreams that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace And saw within the moonlight in his room Making it rich and like a lily in bloom An angel writing in a book of gold Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold And to the presence in the room he said - "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head And with a look made all of sweet accord Answered "The names of those who love the Lord."
Leigh Hunt
When your dreams tire they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
Charles Dickens
No doubt alcohol tobacco and so forth are things that a saint must avoid but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
George Orwell
A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
Samuel Butler
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm
There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Winston Churchill
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
Jacob Bronowski
Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.
Brian Aldiss
Laugh and the world laughs with you snore and you sleep alone.
Katharine Whitehorn
Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.
Patrick Murray
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W.S. Gilbert
He who hates vice hates men.
John Morley
If individuals have no virtues their vices may be of use to us.
Junius
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.
Samuel Butler
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure.
Bertrand Russell