Quotes by British Authors - Page 42

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens
Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum.
P.G. Wodehouse
But Shelley had a hyperthyroid face.
John C. Squire
One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.
John Galsworthy
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Hair is another name for sex.
Vidal Sassoon
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. Chesterton
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold
By perseverance the snails reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable.
Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.
Alexander Pope
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
Hugh Kingsmill
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."
Winston Churchill
What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
Christopher Fry
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
John Berger
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. ... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead strive for excellence doing your best.
Sir Laurence Olivier
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
Beatrice Potter Webb
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.
Robert Graves
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
If peace cannot be maintained with honor it is no longer peace.
Lord Russell
When somebody is angry with us we draw a halo around his or her head in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well we don't know! We know though that when we draw a halo around a person suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.
John Lennon
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
Henry Chester
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. Barrie
Most of us can as we choose make of this world either a palace or a prison.
Sir John Lubbock
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.
Michael Rosen
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.
George Orwell
She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.
Daphne du Maurier
Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!
Walter Scott
1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
Edith Cavell
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.
Vincent McNabb
Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas Hardy
The slow rhythm of waiting.
Adrian Cowell
0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
Henry Arthur Jones
Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Lord Byron
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy
The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Benjamin Disraeli
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex she objects.
Les Dawson
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed half the problems of bed are solved.
Peter Ustinov
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh well I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson
She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Lord Byron
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W Somerset Maugham
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
The human race has been set up. Someone somewhere is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?
Billy Connolly
The same heart beats in every human breast.
Matthew Arnold
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.
Lord Byron
Where the mind is past hope the heart is past shame.
John Lyly