Quotes by British Authors - Page 32

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist.
Richard Jeffries
I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.
Sir John Gielgud
To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.
Samuel Johnson
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities they will never come.
Janet Erskine Stuart
To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.
Phyllis Bottome
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities.
John B. Gough
Public opinion is a compound of folly weakness prejudice wrong feeling right feeling obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel
One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Public opinion a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.
Dean William R. Inge
It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.
Sydney Smith
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.
W.S. Gilbert
It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
Walter Raleigh
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
Lord Samuel
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare but then I thought Why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Spike Milligan
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
Speeches are like steer horns - a point here a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Evelyn Anderson
After such an introduction I can hardly wait to hear what I'm going to say.
Evelyn Anderson
A good speech like a woman's skirt should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens London England.
Lord Balfour
Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes.
Charles Dickens
Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.
Freya Stark
Time is eternity begun.
James Montgomery
The less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns one procrastinates one can do it when one will and therefore one seldom does it at all whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it and then they always find time enough to do it.
Lord Chesterfield
You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because each day is different.
Phillip Hewett
A little space of time before time expires a little way of breath.
Algernon Swinburne
What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
Samuel Butler
The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
George Eliot
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today."
Henry Fielding
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow you'd be content with yourself.
Jane Seymour
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Take short views hope for the best and trust in God.
Sydney Smith
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
Those who face that which is actually before them unburdened by the past undistracted by the future these are they who live who make the best use of their lives these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
Alban Goodier
We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Lord Chesterfield
Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.
Robert W. Service
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.
Herbert Spencer
Still on it creeps Each little moment at another's heels Till hours days years and ages are made up Of such small parts as these and men look back Worn and bewilder'd wondering how it is.
Joanna Baillie
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Winston Churchill
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given the powers we have not used the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which shirking pain misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.
Robert M. Fine
Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.
William Gladstone
The Importance of Using Time Well How pleasant it is at the end of the day No follies to have to repent But reflect on the past and be able to say That my time has been properly spent.
Ann Taylor
It is not how many years we live but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
Patricia Fripp
During a very busy life I have often been asked "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
Sir Richard Tangye
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate" an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy the most extensive desires if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence to be overrun with noxious plants or laid out for show rather than for use.
Samuel Johnson
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
Arnold Bennett
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth and parts not with it but for the full value.
Lord Clarendon
Time like money is measured by our needs.
George Eliot