Quotes by British Authors - Page 58

A child is fed with milk and praise.
Mary Lamb
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark
When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
Ninette de Valois
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
Emmeline Pankhurst
People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.
Sydney J. Harris
There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Charles Kingsley
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.
Sir Arthur Helps
Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
Sympathy is the charm of human life.
Grace Aguilar
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.
William Blake
Injustice is a sixth sense and rouses all the others.
Amelia Barr
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
Wilfred Grenfell
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
Hell is indefinite.
Charles Williams
Heaven for climate hell for company.
James M. Barrie
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.
Lord Byron
Art thou lonely O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.
John Oxenham
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
P. J. Bailey
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
Robert Southey
An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.
C.S. Lewis
I'm very lonely now Mary For the poor make no new friends But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!
Helen Selina
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.
W Somerset Maugham
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by fullness not by reception.
Harold Loukes
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.
Douglas Jerrold
Maid of Athens ere we part Give oh give me back my heart!
Lord Byron
Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older as spreading oak gives more shelter.
Richard Jeffries
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.
Rudyard Kipling
None so deaf as those that will not hear.
Matthew Henry
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.
A.P. Herbert
Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?
Graham Greene
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Walter Raleigh
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
Samuel Butler
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person nation or creed.
Bertrand Russell
But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
Ben Jonson
Who can refute a sneer?
William Paley
People hate as they love unreasonably.
William Thackeray
I like a good hater.
Samuel Johnson
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
G.K. Chesterton
Acting is happy agony.
Alec Guinness
Make us happy and you make us good.
Robert Browning
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.
Robert Service
The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
What is the worth of anything But for the happiness 'twill bring?
Richard Owen Cambridge
Life delights in life.
William Blake
Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
Jane Austen
My heart is like a singing bird.
Christina Georgina Tossetti
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?
Jane Austen
Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill
To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.
W.H. Auden