Quotes by British Authors - Page 30

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
Henry Chester
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
Most of us can as we choose make of this world either a palace or a prison.
Sir John Lubbock
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.
Michael Rosen
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.
George Orwell
She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.
Daphne du Maurier
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!
Walter Scott
1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
Edith Cavell
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.
Vincent McNabb
Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas Hardy
The slow rhythm of waiting.
Adrian Cowell
0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
Henry Arthur Jones
Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Lord Byron
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy
The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Benjamin Disraeli
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex she objects.
Les Dawson
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed half the problems of bed are solved.
Peter Ustinov
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh well I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson
She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Lord Byron
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W Somerset Maugham
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
The human race has been set up. Someone somewhere is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?
Billy Connolly
The same heart beats in every human breast.
Matthew Arnold
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.
Lord Byron
Where the mind is past hope the heart is past shame.
John Lyly
The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan
Departure should be sudden.
Benjamin Disraeli
Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
Lord Byron
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Evelyn Waugh
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell
I mix them with my brains sir.
John Opie
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
John White
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James McNeill Whistler
Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
E.M. Forster
Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.
Francis Thompson
People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.
Wyndham Lewis
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
Lord Beaverbrook
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.
John Vanbrugh
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
Nancy Astor
I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.
Elizabeth Goudge
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
Phillip Mann
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand A. Russell