Quotes by British Authors - Page 23

To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.
Stephen McKenna
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading it vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Brontë
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?
Edith Sitwell
What's important is finding out what works for you.
Henry Moore
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
Lord Byron
If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms - never! never! never!
William Pitt
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell
A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
T.S Eliot
Vengeance is sweet.
William Painter
Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.
Alex Comfort
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Lady Nancy Astor
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge
You can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip Larkin
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
George Edward Herbert
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
Owen Meredith
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
R.C. Sherriff
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P.G. Wodehouse
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
Alexander Hamilton
He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.
Matthew Prior
To be of no Church is dangerous.
Samuel Johnson
I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.
Henny Youngman
The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.
Wilfred Grenfell
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton
I do benefits for all religions. ... I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
Bob Hope
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.G.Wells
I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.
Henny Youngman
I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.
Henny Youngman
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
John Buchan
There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.
Thomas Hardy
Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
Benjamin Disraeli
As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.
Charles Darwin
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
Charles Darwin
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.
Dean William R. Inge
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.
Lord Melbourne
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
W Somerset Maugham
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
Saki
When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.
G.K. Chesterton
Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.
Alan Watts
The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
Bob Hope
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher as equally false and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon
I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.
J.B.S. Haldane
We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well.
Rev. George Carey
The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.
Charles Caleb Colton
As for future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Charles Darwin
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
James M. Barrie
The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts.
John Ayscough
I'm not really a Jew just Jew-ish not the whole hog.
Jonathan Miller
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
Quentin Crisp
The church exists for the sake of those outside it.
William Temple
If you can't believe in God the chances are your God is too small.
J.B. Phillips
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis
And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens And his aunts!
W.S. Gilbert
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
The horror of that moment the King went on "I shall never forget." "You will though " the Queen said "if you don't make a memorandum of it."
Lewis Carroll