Quotes by British Authors - Page 27

Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.
John Newton
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.
James Martineau
No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
John Berridge
He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
Sir William Gurney Benham
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
J.C. Ryle
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies prayerless work and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil mocks at our wisdom but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
In the war upon the powers of darkness prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon both in aggressive war upon them and their works in the deliverance of men from their power and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.
Jessie Penn-Lewis
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
Matthew Henry
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
William Blake
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
Alexander Pope
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
Sydney J. Harris
Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.
Sydney Smith
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Liberal - a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley
Patience and gentleness is power.
Leigh Hunt
Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.
Peter Newman
The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind freedom a rarely acquired characteristic.
R. H. S. Crossman
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
William Pitt
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
Alfred North Whitehead
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Samuel Johnson
Poverty is no sin.
George Edward Herbert
O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.
Jerome K. Jerome
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
Hunger is insolent and will be fed.
Alexander Pope
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.
Arnold Bennett
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Douglas Jerrold
Go little letter apace apace Fly Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?
George Edward Herbert
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Gerald Brenan
Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
Gregory Bateson
I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.
Sir John Walton
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.
Tom O'Connor
Clear your mind of "can't."
Samuel Johnson
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.
Edith Sitwell
We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack.
Sir Andrew Cunningham
My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.
Tom O'Connor
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Charles Caleb Colton
If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.
Home Tooke
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.
Dame Rebecca West
A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
George R. Gissing
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.
Fay Weldon
I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
Margery Allingham
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.
Marie Corelli
Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.
William Cobbett
It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.
Nancy Astor