Quotes by British Authors - Page 52

Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Our whole life is like a play.
Ben Jonson
For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Love doesn't make the world go round Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
It matters not how long we live but how.
Francis Bailey
Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh.
W.H. Auden
We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise The pain the calm and the astonishment Desire illimitable and silent content And all dear names men use to cheat despair For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
Rupert Brooke
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
W Somerset Maugham
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson
To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
John Keats
All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
Kenneth Tynan
Real life seems to have no plots.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell
At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.
Aldous Huxley
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
George Whitefield
One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Walter Scott
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Winston Churchill
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas Hardy
Growth is the only evidence of life.
Cardinal Newman
Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
Alfred North Whitehead
Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
T.S Eliot
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
Aldous Huxley
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson
The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
Samuel Johnson
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S Eliot
Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
Virginia Woolf
Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence
The loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.
A.E. Housman
The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.
Alexander Pope
The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
John Morley
This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive.
Robert W. Service
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski
Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Bertrand Russell
Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.
John Keats
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
Frances Cornford
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Thomas Walker
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
G.K. Chesterton
If way to the Better there be it exacts a full look at the Worst.
Thomas Hardy
And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
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
I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there.
Henry James
Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Dick Sharpies
When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.
Georgette Heyer
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Rose Tremain
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold Macmillan
For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.
E.P. Thompson
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Viscount Samuel
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill