Quotes by British Authors - Page 67

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S Eliot
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.
Charles Dickens
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more prosperity than A.
W.S. Gilbert
The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth
The bow is bent the arrow flies The winged shaft of fate.
Ira Aldridge
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.
Samuel Butler
Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Eric Bentley
A love of fashion makes the economy go round.
Liz Tilberis
When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.
Lord Chesterfield
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Gary Grant
I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.
Janet Anderson
Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
Lord Byron
I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.
Martin Fenton
Let's face it there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma.
Janet Anderson
Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branagh
Treat your friends as you do your pictures and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
Arnold Bennett
It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.
Frank Smith
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
R.D. Laing
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie
Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.
Ashley Montagu
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
Freya Stark
When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.
R.D. Laing
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
Winston Churchill
I am he As you are me And we are all together.
John Lennon
The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
Arthur Helps
I have called the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.
Dean William R. Inge
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Lord Byron
The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.
John Churton Collins
The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
Lord Chesterfield
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
Sir George Savile
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
William McFee
Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
C.S. Lewis
A thing of beauty is a joy forever Its loveliness increases it will never Pass into nothingness.
John Keats
There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Round numbers are always false.
Samuel Johnson
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
C.S. Lewis
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.
John Keats
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited but was defined before it existed.
G.K. Chesterton
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.
Aldous Huxley
Something will turn up.
Benjamin Disraeli
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
Og Guinness
Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.
Samuel Butler
You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Lucy Ellman
Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.
George A. Buttrick
Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.
William Ralph Inge
Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
William Ralph Inge
Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.
E.M. Forster
Faith is a bridge across the gulf of death.
Edward Young
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
Havelock Ellis
Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God and the things of God.
John Wesley
Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth