Quotes by British Authors - Page 66

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing warm and racy its after-flavor metallic and corroding gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
Charlotte Brontë
Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.
Madeleine Brent
Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
In hatred as in love we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious is manly and divine.
Isaac Watts
Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause not an individual. Keep it for intolerance injustice stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.
Olive Moore
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Charlotte Brontë
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Porter
I know now that patriotism is not enough I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.
Edith Cavell
Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.
Marie Corelli
Courage and clemency are equal virtues.
Mary Delariviere Manley
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Sydney J. Harris
The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
In life as in chess forethought wins.
Charles Buxton
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Charles Lamb
There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'
Dean William R. Inge
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
Samuel Johnson
If you wish to grow thinner diminish your dinner.
H. S. Leigh
Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Sir Robert Hutchinson
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
Charles
Kissing don't last: cookery do.
George Meredith
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
W Somerset Maugham
Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.
W Somerset Maugham
It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.
Walter de la Mare
And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.
Christopher Marlowe
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Robert Herrick
Angling is an innocent cruelty.
George Parker
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
Samuel Johnson
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
The burnt child dreads the fire.
Ben Jonson
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Edward Herbert
Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Lord Byron
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves But never for us so hearty.
John B. Buckstone
There can no great smoke arise but there must be some fire.
John Lyly
To fish in troubled waters.
Matthew Henry
A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson
I am never afraid of what I know.
Anna Sewell
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain to a third of public ridicule to a fourth of poverty to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.
Horace Walpole
Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.
William McFee
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.
John Lennon
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand Russell
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Joanna Field
O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
Samuel Johnson
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.
Arthur Christopher Benson
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley
Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.
Paul Parker
In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?
Hannah More
There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Joanna Field
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred Hitchcock
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Nancy Astor
How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad
I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
A.E. Housman
A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
James A. Froude