Quotes by British Authors - Page 57

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
John Still
All history is a lie!
Sir Robert Walpole
Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past And each heart is whispering "Home Home at last!"
Thomas Hood
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
Arnold Toynbee
History is past politics and politics present history.
John Seeley
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
Lord Acton
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Robin Skelton
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Ronald Wright
The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
T.S Eliot
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us.
E.M. Forster
History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
A.J.P. Taylor
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Samuel Butler
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.
E.M. Forster
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
W.H. Auden
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Aldous Huxley
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
Dean William R. Inge
History is the devil's scripture.
Lord Byron
In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
John Fowles
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Saki
One murder makes a villain millions a hero.
Bishop Beilby Porteus
Play the man Master Ridley we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.
Bishop Hugh Latimer
The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
Felicia D. Hemans
When I want a peerage I shall buy one like an honest man.
Lord Northcliffe
The child is father to the man.
William Wordsworth
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.
Ashleigh Brilliant
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles and that help must come from without.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heaviest load to bear.
Frances Ridley Havergal
We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.
Marie Rambert
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.
Arthur Christopher Benson
To help all created things that is the measure of our responsibility to be helped by all that is the measure of our hope.
Gerald Vann
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
Charles Caleb Colton
What we frankly give forever is our own.
George Granville
Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.
Lord Chesterfield
The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.
Robert J. McCracken
Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.
Stuart Cloete
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
A.E. Housman
One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!
George Eliot
I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Alexander Pope
In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.
Alexander Pope
There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.
C. H. Dodd
Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
Give if thou can an alms if not a sweet and gentle word.
Robert Herrick
You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm
In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.
Richard Baxter
Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Truth has never been can never be contained in any one creed or system.
Mary Augusta Ward
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
Mary Bateson
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
George Eliot
There are no little events in life those we think of no consequence may be full of fate and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered and of small importance.
Amelia Barr
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Mary Bateson
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Baroness Edith Summerskill