Quotes by British Authors - Page 65

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart I'll stay there forever.
A.A. Milne
Friendship is a serious affection the most sublime of all affections because it is founded on principle and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies the winds which fan the flame of love when judiciously or artfully tempered are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Bertrand Russell
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
Charles Caleb Colton
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Douglas Jerrold
Friendship is like money easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next-door neighbour.
G.K. Chesterton
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.
Joseph Conrad
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
Benjamin Disraeli
Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save save oh save me from the candid friend!
George Canning
A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Douglas Jerrold
To err is human to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
Good to forgive Best to forget.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.
Mary Webb
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
G.K. Chesterton
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton
There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
Julius Charles Hare
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Robert Herrick
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
William Ralph Inge
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Elizabeth Carter
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern
The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
Jeremy Taylor
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
G.K. Chesterton
No man can be satisfied with his attainment although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
Frank Swinnerton
Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.
Sydney Smith
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before second because although they took my purse they did not take my life third because although they took my all it was not much and fourth because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.
Matthew Henry
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting swimming fencing boxing walking playing dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
G.K. Chesterton
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?
Matthew Arnold
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Pearsall Smith
There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter
Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
Abraham Tucker
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
Charles Kingsley
The cut worm forgives the plow.
William Blake
How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.
H. G. Bohn
Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?
Joseph Conrad
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Joseph Jacobs
Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
The days are too short even for love how can there be enough time for quarreling?
Margaret Gatty