Quotes by British Authors - Page 48

Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
If I were hanged on the highest hill Mother o' mine O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!
Rudyard Kipling
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
Henry Moore
What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!
Logan Pearsall Smith
Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?
Gilbert Murray
I think in terms of the day's resolutions not the year's.
Henry Moore
When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
C.S. Lewis
Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
A.E. Housman
There never was night that had no morn.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.
Richard Whately
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
Charles Caleb Colton
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
H.G.Wells
To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
John Locke
Tut tut child said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
Lewis Carroll
Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.
Peter Lord
We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.
William Blake
To act without rapacity to use knowledge with wisdom to respect interdependence to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
Barbara Ward
The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
Lord Shawcross
If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed I should close instantly with the offer.
Thomas Huxley
No morality can be founded on authority even if the authority were divine.
A.J. Ayer
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead
Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith
A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
January grey is here Like a sexton by her grave February bears the bier March with grief doth howl and rave And April weeps - but O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
That orbed maiden with white fire laden Whom mortals call the moon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.
Thomas Huxley
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Oh to be in England Now that April's there.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
No shade no shine no butterflies no bees No fruits no flowers no leaves no birds November!
Thomas Hood
The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
Virginia Woolf
There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
Herbert Marshall
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
Baron Rothschild
Money isn't everything - but it's a long way ahead of what comes next.
Edmund Stockdale
Making money is fun but it's pointless if you don't use the power it brings.
John Bentley
Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.
W Somerset Maugham
In the bad old days there were three easy ways of losing money - racing being the quickest women the pleasantest and farming the most certain.
William Pitt Amherst
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
Maurice Baring
To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding
But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.
Nigel Dennis
Inflation is determined by money supply growth.
Roger Bootle
Money can't buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.
Charles Dickens
The mob is a sort of bear while your ring is through its nose it will even dance under your cudgel but should the ring slip and you lose your hold the brute will turn and rend you.
Jane Porter
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.
Lord Acton
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Norman Douglas
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.
G.K. Chesterton
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.
J. A. Froude
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.
Dean William R. Inge
He that is down need fear no fall.
John Bunyan
A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will it is reported raise her skirt to cover her face.
Raymond Mortimer
A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment.
W.S. Gilbert