Quotes by British Authors - Page 41

The lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
Damn your principles! Stick to your party!
Benjamin Disraeli
Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.
John Morley
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
Lord Acton
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan
In politics a week is a very long time.
Harold Wilson
Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
Bernard Crick
Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.
John Bailey
It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.
Harold Macmillan
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.
William White law
The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
Politics is a blood sport.
Aneurin Bevan
A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he is a statesman.
David Lloyd George
All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.
Enoch Powell
Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his political life.
Jeremy Thorpe
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
Sydney Smith
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.
Rudyard Kipling
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .
Samuel Johnson
Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
Cyril Connolly
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
T.S Eliot
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T.S Eliot
The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
T.S Eliot
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
John Keats
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
G.K. Chesterton
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved the Inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.
Gerald Brenan
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.
Robert Graves
There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.
Robert Graves
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
T.S Eliot
The reader who is illuminated is in a real sense the poem.
H. M. Tomlinson
No man was ever yet a great poet without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
Hartley Coleridge
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.
George Edward Herbert
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Froude
To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line Empty the haunted air the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.
John Keats
A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.
Alexander Pope
In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed that life can be fixed up. In Europe the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.
Jonathan Miller
All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
T.S Eliot
Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
Steal the hog and give the feet for alms.
George Edward Herbert
Let me be dressed fine as I will Flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
Isaac Watts
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Lord Bowen
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?
Harold Pinter
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.
Charles Dickens