Quotes by British Authors - Page 12

None think the great unhappy but the great.
Edward Young
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor and this I know that where law ends there tyranny begins.
Lord Chatham
How lovely are the portals of the night When stars come out to watch the daylight die.
Thomas Cole
A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
Everything has to be taken on trust truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.
Tom Stoppard
What I tell you three times is true.
Lewis Carroll
Truth for him was a moving target he never aimed for the bull and rarely pierced the outer ring.
Hugh Cudlipp
It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.
John Morley
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
It was as true said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."
Charles Dickens
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
A misleading impression not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Sir Robert Armstrong
There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
Lord Ellenborough
Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
D.H. Lawrence
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert W. Service
Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon.
Samuel Butler
To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
Samuel Butler
Generally by the time you are Real most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all because once you are Real you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand.
Margery Williams
Troubles like babies grow larger by nursing.
Lady Holland
There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Tis a lesson you should heed Try try try again If at first you don't succeed Try try try again.
W. E. Hickson
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
Aldous Huxley
Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli
Down to Gehenna or up to the throne He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Rudyard Kipling
As the Spanish proverb says "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
G.K. Chesterton
As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.
John Keats
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Arthur Helps
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
Tomorrow never yet On any human being rose or set.
William Marsden
Dowling Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
For thy sake tobacco I Would do anything but die.
Charles Lamb
Little tube of mighty pow'r Charmer of an idle hour Object of my warm desire.
Isaac Hawkins Browne
Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate.
Lord Byron
A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
A glass is good and a lass is good And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.
John O'Keeffe
Time was made for slaves.
John B. Buckstone
Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old Time is still aflying And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
Time is money.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
Joanna Field
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Lord Chesterfield
The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.
Charles Mackay
We think in generalities but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... do big things.
Herbert Butterfield
The little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.
Hartley Coleridge
Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.
Alexander Pope
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
John Lyly