Quotes by British Authors - Page 61

Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.
Sydney Smith
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Walter Savage Landor
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
Herbert Asquith
His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.
John Stuart Mill
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
R.H. Tawney
We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill
The great cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
Isaac Watts
There but for the grace of God goes John Bradford.
John Bradford
Is but the threshold of eternity.
Robert Southey
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.
Lord Moulton
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
To make certain that crime does not pay the government should take it over and try to run it.
G. Norman Collie
Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.
Randolph Churchill
The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot
The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
V.S. Pritchett
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter! - all his force dares not cross the threshhold of the ruined tenement!
William Pitt the Elder
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Dean William R. Inge
The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
Dean William R. Inge
It would be desirable if every government when it comes to power should have its old speeches burnt.
Philip Snowden
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
Rosamond Lehmann
States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.
Walter Savage Landor
Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.
Cyril Smith
It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold Macmillan
I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
Harold Wilson
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
Dean William R. Inge
A difficulty for every solution.
Herbert Samuel
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.
Alexander Pope
Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
Charles Kingsley
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
Leonard Woolf
Biography is higher gossip.
Robert Winder
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
Saki
A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.
John O'Keeffe
For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.
George Linnaeus Banks
We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W.H. Auden
Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.
Charles Kingsley
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.
Samuel Johnson
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Samuel Johnson
General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.
William Blake
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.
G.K. Chesterton
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
Lord Acton
That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
The sunshine of the mind.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined.
Owen Meredith
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow hard and cold
Thomas Hood
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khat-mandu There's a little marble cross below the town There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew And die yellow god forever gazes down.
J. Milton Hayes
I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled And made me in these Christian days A happy Christian child.
Jane Taylor
Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God or acting out God through our lives.
Phillip Hewett
Gawd knows and 'E won't split on a pal.
Rudyard Kipling
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.
William Ralph Inge
The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.
George Eliot
Walk boldly and wisely. ... There is a hand above that will help you on.
Philip James Bailey
An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
A.P. Herbert
No statement about God is simply literally true. God is far more than can be measured described defined in ordinary language or pinned down to any particular happening.
David Jenkins
By night an atheist half-believes in God.
Edward Young
God when he makes the prophet does not unmake the man.
John Locke
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if he wanted to but I very much doubt if he would because it seems to be contrary to the way in which he deals with persons and brings his wonders out of natural personal relationships.
Right Rev. David Jenkins