Quotes by British Authors - Page 22

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.
Kenneth Grahame
He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.
Sydney Smith
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V.S. Pritchett
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
No man is demolished but by himself.
Thomas Bentley
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lord Dewar
Nations have passed away and left no traces And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases They fell because their peoples were not fit.
Rudyard Kipling
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
Sir William Blackstone
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
Samuel Johnson
If ... you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird
It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
Jeanette Winterson
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.
Emmeline Pankhurst
We owe something to extravagance for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor
People who are born even-tempered placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn never become great saints.
Eva Le Gallienne
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
John Lubbock
A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame and the brunt of the storm.
Herbert N. Casson
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S Eliot
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
Hannah Moore
If we are intended for great ends we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
To achieve anything you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
Stirling Moss
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
Alfred North Whitehead
However well organized the foundations of life may be life must always be full of risks.
Havelock Ellis
To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold Macmillan
It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
One truth is clear Whatever is is right.
Alexander Pope
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Ashley Montagu
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Sir Archibald Wavell
When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.
John Ruskin
The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.
John Ruskin
We do not write as we want but as we can.
W Somerset Maugham
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
Sydney Smith
Genius does what it must talent does what it can.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
Katharine Whitehorn
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.
Rebecca West
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Eva Le Gallienne
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
Hazel Henderson
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.
Havelock Ellis
The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.
Arthur Christopher Benson
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
Charles Caleb Colton
Until you know that life is interesting and find it so you haven't found your soul.
Geoffrey Fisher
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
Sir Richard Burton
Truth has beauty power and necessity.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
Janet Erskine Stuart
No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.
Samuel Butler
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy but stability-the steadfastness of a single purpose.
Caroline Stephen
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare