Quotes by British Authors - Page 43

The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan
Departure should be sudden.
Benjamin Disraeli
Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
Lord Byron
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Evelyn Waugh
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell
I mix them with my brains sir.
John Opie
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
John White
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James McNeill Whistler
Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
E.M. Forster
Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.
Francis Thompson
People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.
Wyndham Lewis
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
Lord Beaverbrook
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.
John Vanbrugh
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
Nancy Astor
I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.
Elizabeth Goudge
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
Phillip Mann
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand A. Russell
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Bateson
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
James Hastings
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.
John Locke
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love as if to keep it warm.
William Wordsworth
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
The brave man is not he who feels no fear For that were stupid and irrational But he whose noble soul its fear subdues And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Joanna Baillie
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Mark Rutherford
How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Brontë
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot
Silence sweeter is than speech.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
John Churton Collins
Envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.
George Eliot
Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
Angus Wilson
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
Not many people ask me out.
Marina Sirtis
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices.
Germaine Greer
I think if I weren't so beautiful maybe I'd have more character.
Jerry Hall
I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.
Elizabeth Taylor
I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean period. So you know I don't like myself.
Elizabeth Taylor
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson
We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Jane Harrison
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Bertrand Russell
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Henry Havelock Ellis
I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.
Jacqueline Briskin
The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.
Margaret Drabble
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes