Quotes by British Authors - Page 17

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
John Churton Collins
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
John Churton Collins
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
Penelope Leach
To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
Joseph Conrad
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
Neat not gaudy.
Charles Lamb
You are in some brown study.
John Lyly
Style is the dress of thoughts.
Lord Chesterfield
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
Learn to think continentally.
Alexander Hamilton
A stranger's eyes see clearest.
Charles Reade
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Her blue eyes sought the west afar For lovers love the western star.
Walter Scott
If you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.
Bob Hope
Our team was surprisingly consistent this year. We closed with a seven-seven record. We lost seven at home and seven on the road.
Steve Wheeler
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
T. H. Huxley
International sport is war without shooting.
George Orwell
It you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.
Bob Hope
God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.
James Howell
God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.
John Ruskin
Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.
James Hudson Taylor
You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
Benjamin Disraeli
A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Benjamin Disraeli
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
Benjamin Disraeli
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Charles Churchill
His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."
Lord Byron
If you your lips would keep from slips Five things observe with care To whom you speak of whom you speak And how and when and where.
W. E. Norris
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Speech is the small change of silence.
George Meredith
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Winston Churchill
If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!
Winston Churchill
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
G.K. Chesterton
Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.
Elizabeth Charles
Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.
F. E. Smith
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
Isaac Watts
A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
A.P. Herbert
To Sorrow I bade good-morrow And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly cheerly She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me and so kind.
John Keats
Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.
Ben Jonson
A charge to keep I have A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save And fit it for the sky.
Charles Wesley
It matters not how strait the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
W. E. Henley
Out of the night that covers me Black as the Pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
W. E. Henley
Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell
The busy have no time for tears.
Lord Byron
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson
Unhurt people are not much good in the world.
Enid Starkie
About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
W.H. Auden
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
Charles Kingsley
Alone alone all all alone Alone on a wide wide sea.
Hartley Coleridge
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.
Hartley Coleridge
We enter the world alone we leave it alone.
James Froude