Quotes by British Authors - Page 54

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
Norman Douglas
Give me a kisse and to that kisse a score Then to that twenty adde a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kisse on To make that thousand up a million Treble that million and when that is done Let's kisse afresh as when we first begun.
Robert Herrick
Delay of justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
William Watson
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
Winston Churchill
Give your decision never your reasons your decisions may be right your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Lord Mansfield
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
I have drunken deep of joy And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To undo a Jew is charity and not sin.
Christopher Marlowe
Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it "Italy."
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
John Dennis
Jealousy's eyes are green.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell
Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command His first command is this - "Man love thyself."
Edward Young
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noël Coward
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred N. Whitehead
Think sideways!
Edward de Bono
The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?
Alexander Pope
A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.
Margot Asquith
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
Norman Douglas
What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.
D.H. Lawrence
Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.
John Wesley
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.
Sir Arthur Eddington
To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.
Samuel Butler
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intuitional consciousness and when I get a response there then I accept.
D.H. Lawrence
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
Aldous Huxley
Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
Emily Blackwell
I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
Sydney Smith
The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.
Stanley Kubrick
It is our business to go as we are impelled.
D.H. Lawrence
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.
Holmes
I give myself sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.
Alfred North Whitehead
Mad as a March hare.
James Orchard Halliwell
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
Sir William Blackstone
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
W.S. Gilbert
Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.
Alexander Pope
The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.
John Stuart Mill
Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
Graham Greene
Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.
Mark Rutherford
Tolerance is a tremendous virtue but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Sir James Goldsmith
I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever.
John Keats
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
George Eliot
For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.
Rudyard Kipling
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Samuel Johnson
The conquest of the earth which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
Joseph Conrad
What is human is immortal!
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
We are in truth more than a half of what we are by imitation.
Lord Chesterfield
Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.
Philip Massinger
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
The imagination of a boy is healthy and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in ferment the character undecided the way of life uncertain.
John Keats
Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.
Hannah More