Quotes by British Authors - Page 53

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!
Robert Browning
Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
Sydney Smith
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence conservatism distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
Saki
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
Samuel Johnson
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
Samuel Johnson
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli
When we think we lead we most are led.
Lord Byron
Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.
Clement Attlee
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
Lister Sinclair
It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.
Dean William R. Inge
It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.
Samuel Johnson
Where law ends there tyranny begins.
William Pitt
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens
If the law supposes that said Mr. Bumble "the law is a ass a idiot."
Charles Dickens
And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
W.S. Gilbert
Law is a bottomless pit.
J. Arbuthnot
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Edward Bond
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Barten Holyday
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Lord Darling
That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.
Lord Diplock
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
Cary Grant
Rise with the lark and with the lark to bed.
James Hurdis
Hail to thee blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert That from Heaven or near it Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.
Charles C. Grevvile
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
The learned is happy nature to explore the fool is happy that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market.
Arthur Hugh Clough
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton
If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley
Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
Ben Jonson
A long long kiss a kiss of youth and love.
Lord Byron
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Leigh Hunt
Jenny kissed me when we met Jumping from the chair she sat in Time you thief who love to get Sweets into your list put that in. Say I'm weary say I'm sad Say that health and wealth have missed me Say I'm growing old but add Jenny kissed me.
Leigh Hunt
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Lord Chesterfield
See! the mountains kiss high heaven And the waves clasp one another No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: - What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
Cyril Joad
The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them.
Samuel Butler
Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Alexander Pope
Their cause I plead - plead it in heart and mind A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
David Garrick
Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.
Henry Fielding
Come lay thy head upon my breast And I will kiss thee into rest.
Lord Byron