Quotes by British Authors - Page 168

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
Ian Fleming
My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.
Rebecah McManus
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no
Cyril Connolly
Italians make you laugh and break your heart.
Chloe Thurlow
And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His heavy reclining body, draped in its black gown, heaved to and fro. His knees drew themselves up to his chin. His arms dangled over the sides of the chair and were helpless. His head rolled from side to side. It was as though he were in the last stages of strychnine poisoning. But no sound came, nor did his mouth even open. Gradually the spasm grew weaker, and when the natural sand colour of his face had returned (for his corked-up laughter had turned it dark red) he began his smoking again in earnest.
Mervyn Peake
I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.
Yusuf Islam
Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks
Dean Cavanagh
Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.
David Mitchell
Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!"Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked."That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know.
Lewis Carroll
Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.
P.G. Wodehouse
The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.
P.G. Wodehouse
If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.
Paul Graham
She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling from the ceiling when amused.
P.G. Wodehouse
I dearly love a laugh.
Jane Austen
Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It is one of the difficult and delightful subtleties of life that we must deeply acknowledge certain things to be serious and yet retain the power and will to treat them often as lightly as a game.
C.S. Lewis
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it is the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.
Audrey Hepburn
{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,
Tom Holt
Laughter is much better than anger.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.
Thomas Hardy
It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort.
Christopher Hitchens
Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.
Matt Haig
By the way, you haven’t seen an alien around here, have you? About six foot eight with a face like a cross between a boar and an upturned crab. Probably carrying a spear and a bag full of severed heads.’ Parker shrugged. ‘I dunno. It gets busy here.’ ‘He’s got quite an unusual laugh.’ ‘Oh, that bloke? He’s down the bottom of the ramp. You know him, then?
Toby Frost
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
Charles Dickens
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
Dorothy L. Sayers
The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how right he was; and wondered, in dismay, whether it was because he invariably made her laugh that instead of regarding the Nonesuch with revulsion she was obliged to struggle against the impulse to cast every scruple to the winds, and to give her life into his keeping.
Georgette Heyer
I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen when she's writing. The way she laughs. The way she smiles. The way she's kind. The way she cares. The way she listens. Just everything. She's just incredible. I've never met anyone quite like her before.
Kiki Archer
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live
Andrea Levy
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
Georgette Heyer
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.
W.H. Auden
Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.
George Gordon Byron
There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless.
Doris Lessing
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Rafael Sabatini
A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas.
Steven Redhead
It's always advisable to cut potential losses in the early stages.
Steven Redhead
What you focus upon for the future has potential to transpire.
Steven Redhead
There are potential opportunities for everyone to expand consciousness.
Steven Redhead
Variability has potential to create confusion.
Steven Redhead
Continuously rambling thoughts disrupt the potential for positive thinking.
Steven Redhead
Imagination holds the key to finding potentials to pursue.
Steven Redhead
Avoid becoming entrapped by the mundane, pursue the best potential outcome for any situation.
Steven Redhead
Avoid chasing after the never ending deluge of potential trinkets.
Steven Redhead
There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality.
Steven Redhead
Random thoughts have the potential to create a chaotic reality.
Steven Redhead
Ignoring intuition to follow some course in life always has the potential for regrets.
Steven Redhead
How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
Agatha Christie
Think larger. Redraw what is possible.
David Mitchell
To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.
George Orwell
Maybe it’s the quiet,” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.
Jonathan Renshaw
You never think it’s going to happen to you, do you?
Sarah Lotz
I think irradiating pilots with WiFi radio frequency (RF) radiation is really going to hit about five years from now as 'Delayed Radiation Complications' show up. I am expecting to see increased airplane accidents & crashes for various reasons starting in 2020 onward.
Steven Magee
It is reasonable to think that if you spend your days indoors under artificial lights, staring at a screen, sitting in computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) fields and exposed to radio waves, that you may eventually develop a strange form of radiation sickness.
Steven Magee
There is always a need to understand that others don't think the way that you do.
Steven Redhead
Don't think it. Do it!
Anthony T.Hincks
A modern woman sees a piece of linen, but the mediaeval woman saw through it to the flax fields, she smelt the reek of the retting ponds, she felt the hard rasp of the hackling, and she saw the soft sheen of the glossy flax. Man did not see 'just leather', he saw the beast - perhaps one of his own - and knew the effort of slaughtering, liming and curing.Communities were smaller and whether our man lived on the outskirts of some feudal system, had escaped from it, or was entirely isolated, he would work alone, or daily with the same fellow-workers - conversation would soon languish.But THINK he must.
Dorothy Hartley
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Mary Shelly
I think we may have reached the point where guns need to be confiscated from police officers.
Steven Magee
What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Aldous Huxley