Quotes by British Authors - Page 56

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.
George Orwell
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create as it were a new picture a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest for them we in a strange sense wish to and do start life anew.
Ann N. Bridge
When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.
Arthur Bryant
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.
Frank Swinnerton
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W.H. Auden
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.
George Eliot
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Alexander Pope
For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest.
Alexander Pope
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
Walter Scott
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton
Hope that star of life's tremulous ocean.
Paul Moon James
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty sickness and captivity would without this comfort be insupportable.
Samuel Johnson
If winter comes can spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears not to oust them.
Vincent NcNabb
Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.
Jeremy Collier
Hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Matthew Prior
No hope no action.
Peter Levi
Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.
Sydney Smith
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida
Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
Harriet Martineau
Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
Samuel Johnson
Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is but always to be blest.
Alexander Pope
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
A.P. Herbert
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honor more.
Richard Lovelace
When rogues fall out honest men get into their own.
Sir Matthew Hale
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Dean William R. Inge
To be honest one must be inconsistent.
H.G.Wells
The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.
Saki
A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.
Samuel Johnson
That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.
Anthony Storr
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb
Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Lord Byron
We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.
Mona Caird
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
William Wordsworth
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness.
Martin Esslin
Know then thyself presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo Sapiens.
Desmond Morris
The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.
Kenneth Grahame
Darwinian Man though well-behaved At best is only a monkey shaved!
W.S. Gilbert
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
Virginia Woolf
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
George Orwell
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Dean William R. Inge
Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
Dean William R. Inge
Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.
Lord Chesterfield
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
Joseph Conrad
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
George Norman Douglas
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
H.G.Wells