Quotes by British Authors - Page 34

Now landsmen all whoever you may be If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.
W.S. Gilbert
Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
William Wordsworth
Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
Charles Kingsley
Earth's crammed with Heaven And every common bush afire with God.
E. B. Browning
After rain comes fair weather.
James Howell
All gardening is landscape painting.
Alexander Pope
The kiss of sun for pardon The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
Dorothy Gurney
I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.
D.H. Lawrence
My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.
William Wordsworth
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.
Charles Darwin
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the "Survival of the fittest" is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.
Dean William R. Inge
Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
G.K. Chesterton
Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
Charles Darwin
The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair just and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Huxley
Nature is usually wrong.
James McNeill Whistler
There is something haunting in the light of the moon it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Joseph Conrad
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
Alexander Pope
The course of nature is the art of God.
Edward Young
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Horace Walpole
And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
Leigh Hunt
From the intrinsic evidence of His creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .
Sir James Jeans
He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale.
Samuel Johnson
I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
Benjamin Britten
Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
Hannah More
Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
Lord Byron
She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.
Montague Glass
Why should the devil have all the good tunes?
Rowland Hill
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
Benny Green
The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out.
Ernest Newman
Music first and last should sound well should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.
Thomas Beecham
Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.
Samuel Johnson
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
Alexander Pope
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.
Charles Lamb
Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera that is provides a language for us to speak of ourselves as we have always known we should speak.
Hamish Swanston
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
George Eliot
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G.K. Chesterton
The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.
Donald Francis Tovey
Music touches places beyond our touching.
Keith Bosley
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
Gustav Hoist
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better.
Charles Burney
I have sat through an Italian opera til for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless fruitless barren attention!
Charles Lamb
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Colin Wilson
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Edward Appleton
It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Christopher Fry
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Edward Young
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
George Edward Herbert
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept Remembering thee.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Eva Le Gallienne
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
Hazel Henderson
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!
Matthew Arnold
Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton