Quotes by British Authors - Page 21

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Brontë
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Monica Baldwin
So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.
Vita Sackville-West
If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.
Fay Weldon
Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.
Freya Stark
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
J. A. Froude
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!
Matthew Arnold
Best be yourself imperial plain and true!
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.
George R. Gissing
I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.
Robert Browning
If school results were the key to power girls would be running the world.
Sarah Boseley
I am the only real truth I know.
Jean Rhys
When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.
Elizabeth Taylor
It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.
Noël Coward
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.
Elizabeth Blackwell
I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.
Jane Austen
I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.
Edith Evans
I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.
Robert Service
The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.
Victoria
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
George Eliot
I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.
Graham Sutherland
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
Cyril Connolly
Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.
W.H. Auden
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.
Lord Halifax
Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
Henry Taylor
It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time.
Oliver Franks
The sea hath no king but God alone.
Christina Rossetti
Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.
Alexander Pope
He that will learn to pray let him go to sea.
George Edward Herbert
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer
Break break break On thy cold gray stones O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
O Caledonia! stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Walter Scott
Autumn to winter winter into spring. Spring into summer summer into fall - So rolls the changing year and so we change -Motion so swift we know not that we move.
Dinah Mulock Craik
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
Alex Comfort
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Fred Hoyle
If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Sir Humphrey Davy
Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.
T. H. Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
Alfred North Whitehead
The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.
The British Army Journal
It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.
Paul Davies
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
James Jeans
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mike Russell
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
H.G.Wells
Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.
John Wolfenden
All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.
Lord Kelvin