Quotes by British Authors - Page 15

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Beilby Porteous
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is a case and a strong case for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
Alec Waugh
I believe the future is only the past again entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
Light tomorrow with today!
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
One must care about a world one will not see.
Bertrand Russell
Tomorrow is a satire on today And shows its weakness.
Edward Young
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
William Blake
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
Benjamin Whichcote
The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Alfred North Whitehead
Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.
Henny Youngman
The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.
Bob Hope
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.
Douglas Jerrold
Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Winston Churchill
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost
Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.
Dennis Norden
Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt nor his wife a widow.
John Neale
Good heavens television is something you appear on you don't watch.
Noël Coward
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would every inebriate would if he could.
J. B. Gough
He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.
Lord Reith
Oh! would I were dead now Or up in my bed now To cover my head now And have a good cry!
Thomas Hood
Tears are Summer showers to the soul.
Alfred Austin
Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott
If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson
The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.
Virginia Woolf
The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
John Osborne
We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.
Charles Lamb
Taste is the feminine of genius.
Edward FitzGerald
Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.
Malcolm Muggeridge
They never taste who always drink They always talk who never think.
Matthew Prior
Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Marie of Rumania
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.
Samuel Butler
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley
What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
Alexander Pope
All our talents increase in the using and every faculty both good and bad strengthens by exercise.
Anne Brontë
Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The time has come the Walrus said "To talk of many things Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings."
Lewis Carroll
I cannot tell how the truth may be I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Walter Scott
The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
S. C. Tallentyre
Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.
Alexander Pope
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Tush! These are trifles and mere old wives' tales.
Christopher Marlowe
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Henry Wotton
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour.
Lord Byron
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Lord Darling
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.
Samuel Butler
The pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Ben Jonson
Somebodys said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't " but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest
Whence are thy beams O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty the stars hide themselves in the sky the moon cold and pale sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone.
James MacPherson
Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to that alone Laughs at impossibilities And cries it shall be done.
Charles Wesley
The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Lady Nancy Astor