Quotes by British Authors - Page 50

Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.
W.H. Auden
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli
I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli
Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.
Samuel Johnson
His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding
Marriage is the deep deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Isaac Disraeli
There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
I'm an extinct volcano.
Nancy Lady Astor
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.
Logan Pearsall Smith
When a man opens the car door for his wife it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip
Know then thyself presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
Lord Byron
Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.
Lord Chatham
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
Lord Chesterfield
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!
Rudyard Kipling
Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.
Rudyard Kipling
Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.
Rudyard Kipling
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought his life a breath of God.
Francis Bailey
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Lord Byron
Show me a liar and I will show thee a thief.
George Edward Herbert
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy
Hush my dear lie still and slumber Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.
Isaac Watts
And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron
Sweet and low sweet and low Wind of the western sea Low low breathe and blow Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go Come from the dying moon and blow Blow him again to me While my little one while my pretty one sleeps.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Terminological inexactitude
Winston Churchill
Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling of fighting with their star or against it and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
E.M. Forster
I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Elizabeth Blackwell
If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.
William McFee
They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.
Matthew Arnold
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
Benjamin Disraeli
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.
Phyllis Bottome
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
Arthur Hailey
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
William Thackeray
Luck is everything. ... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward to have a low threshold of fear because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Walter Scott
Love in a hut with water and a crust Is - Love forgive us! - cinders ashes dust.
John Keats
Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves or hills or fields Or woods and steepy mountains yield.
Christopher Marlowe
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas Jerrold
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far Before you agonize them in farewell?
Laurence Hope
I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honour more.
Richard Lovelace
He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.
Richard Monckton Milnes
You say to me-ward's your affection's strong Pray love me little so you love me long.
Robert Herrick
Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"
Rudyard Kipling
We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.
Francis Bailey
All thoughts all passions all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed his sacred flame.
Hartley Coleridge
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart 'Tis woman's whole existence.
Lord Byron
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lord Dewar
No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
John Ruskin
What we can do for another is the test of powers what we can suffer is the test of love.
Brooke Foss Westcott