Quotes by British Authors - Page 18

In solitude when we are least alone.
Lord Byron
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Saki
Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.
Charles Dickens
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.
Lord Byron
Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.
Winston Churchill
He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.
Charles Lamb
Home they brought her warrior dead.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that and "Chuck 'im out the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot.
Rudyard Kipling
It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Thackeray
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
G.K. Chesterton
Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
Arthur Balfour
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.
Lord Byron
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
Thomas Huxley
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
Alfred North Whitehead
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
Ebenezer Elliott
All Socialism involves slavery.
Herbert Spencer
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
Laurence Durrell
All the people like us are We And everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
John Buchan
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Peter Ustinov
Who can refute a sneer?
William Paley
Hush my dear lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard they bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
Isaac Watts
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
John Keats
Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves.
David Garrick
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
Ralph Hodgson
To all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.
Walter Scott
Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.
John Ruskin
If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Douglas Jerrold
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous.
James Froude
The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
Rudyard Kipling
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley
All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.
Winston Churchill
All I had to do was keep turning left.
George Robson
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.
Sir Ian Hamilton
Stay out of jail.
Alfred Hitchcock
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
Esther de Waal
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.
Joseph Rickaby
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.
Storm Jameson
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
Alan Watts
The course of every intellectual if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough ends in the obvious from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
Aldous Huxley
Simplicity clarity singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first and pity him afterwards.
Samuel Johnson
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
E. E. Schumacher
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself to keep one's head above the accumulations the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over steadily almost irresistibly like falling snow.
Rose Macaulay
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear the way children see it?
Rosie Thomas
I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Sir Laurence Olivier
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
G.K. Chesterton
If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
Alan Watts
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated he forgets truths which are too simple.
Dame Rebecca West
Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
W Somerset Maugham
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
Diana Cooper
Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
George Eliot