Quotes by British Authors - Page 31

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Bateson
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
James Hastings
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.
John Locke
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love as if to keep it warm.
William Wordsworth
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Mark Rutherford
How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Brontë
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot
Silence sweeter is than speech.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
George Eliot
Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
Angus Wilson
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
Not many people ask me out.
Marina Sirtis
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices.
Germaine Greer
I think if I weren't so beautiful maybe I'd have more character.
Jerry Hall
I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.
Elizabeth Taylor
I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean period. So you know I don't like myself.
Elizabeth Taylor
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson
We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Jane Harrison
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Bertrand Russell
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Havelock Ellis
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.
Jacqueline Briskin
The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.
Margaret Drabble
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes
There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.
James Shirley
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual for what the gods had given him.
Max Beerbohm
I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.
Princess Anne of England
Men would be angels angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
If solid happiness we prize within our breast this jewel lies And they are fools who roam the world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our bliss must flow And that dear hut-our home.
Nathaniel Cotton
We are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson
We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.
Alec Waugh
Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
Robert Browning
Pioneers may be picturesque figures but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
Samuel Johnson
To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.
L. Susan Stebbing
When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.
W.S. Gilbert
The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
A.S. Byatt
Order is Heaven's first law.
Alexander Pope
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Dean William R. Inge
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
T.S Eliot
That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
G.K. Chesterton
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
H.G.Wells
I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.
W.S. Gilbert
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
Winston Churchill
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Joseph Conrad
Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate.
J.R.R. Tolkien
There is a budding morrow in midnight.
John Keats
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge
When things come to the worst they generally mend.
Susanna Moodie
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
William Wordsworth