Quotes by British Authors - Page 46

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
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
If at first you don't succeed try try try again.
W. E. Hickson
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
Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
D.H. Lawrence
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
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Winston Churchill
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
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
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
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