Quotes by British Authors - Page 33

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb
While we live let us live.
D.H. Lawrence
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas Jerrold
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast. And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches toss'd.
Felicia D. Hemans
If we only knew the real value of a day.
Joseph Farrell
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe
The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other hand tends to be impatient craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W.H. Auden
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.
Alexander Pope
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Bernard Barton
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.
George Meredith
Blessed be he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope
I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
A life of nothing's nothing worth From that first nothing ere his birth To that last nothing under earth.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mold a pin or fabricate a nail!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
Edward Lear
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
Geraldine Jewsbury
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.
Lily Pincus
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
Cyril Connolly
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
Fay Weldon
Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
Winston Churchill
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.
Peter Brook
Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is "Don't grumble. Plug on!"
Sir Frederick Treves
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
Janet Erskine Stuart
By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Slow and steady wins the race.
Robert Lloyd
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
G.K. Chesterton
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
Charles Caleb Colton
Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
The Night has a thousand eyes The Day but one Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.
Francis William Bourdillon
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
Lord Byron
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
Lord Byron
The night is dark and I am far from home.
John Henry Newman
To all to each a fair good night And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.
Walter Scott
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold
Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
James Ellis
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism nor are cliches for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work by its very todayness is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail grow indispensable.
Cyril Connolly
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
Hannen Swaffer
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Douglas Jerrold
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
Laws die books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Winston Churchill
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
Charles Lamb
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
Hearts of oak are our ships Hearts of oak are our men.
David Garrick
I love not man the less but nature more.
Lord Byron
I chatter chatter as I flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on forever.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night There's danger on the deep.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Oh I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmate And the crew of the captain's gig.
W.S. Gilbert