Quotes by British Authors - Page 49

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.
Bertrand Russell
Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness.
George Eliot
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future adjusting to their new and complicated role.
Anna Ford
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Anthony Trollope
What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
Edgar Wallace
What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
Lady Nancy Astor
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
Lord Longford
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
Samuel Johnson
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
C.S. Lewis
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough and need career no further. If a man marries on the other hand public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.
Rose Macaulay
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W Somerset Maugham
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
G.K. Chesterton
That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.
Alexander Pope
If men and women are to understand each other to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy and to become capable of genuine comradeship the foundation must be laid in youth.
Havelock Ellis
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.
J. A. Froude
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson
We forget because we must And not because we will.
Matthew Arnold
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
English I remember I remember The house where I was born The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
Thomas Hood
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Joseph Conrad
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
Charles Dickens
I never forgive but I always forget.
Arthur James Balfour
Memory of all the powers of the mind is the most delicate and frail.
Ben Jonson
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
Beaumont and Fletcher
Departure should be sudden.
Benjamin Disraeli
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
C. Day Lewis
Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.
H. G. Bohn
We only part to meet again.
John Gay
I am in a moment of pretty wellness.
Horace Walpole
Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.
Wilfred Trotter
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.
Arthur Young
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Henry Maudsley
So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
Sir Auckland Geddes
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
Samuel Butler
Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Alexander Pope
To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
Charles Lamb
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'
Hilaire Belloc
Vasectomy means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Larry Adler
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf
Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.
Doris Lessing
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'
W.H. Auden
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel Johnson
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
Leo Baeck
Every woman should marry - and no man.
Benjamin Disraeli
Marriages are made in Heaven.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Thackeray
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli
I married beneath me - all women do.
Nancy Lady Astor