Quotes by British Authors - Page 69

Experience is the extract of suffering.
Arthur Helps
To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
Walter Bagehot
I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression.
Charles Dickens
Let weakness learn meekness.
A. C. Swinburne
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Benjamin Disraeli
Never throw mud. You may miss your mark but you must have dirty hands.
Joseph Parker
As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
Robert Southey
Example is more efficacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson
Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.
Dr. Ann Faraday
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Francis Bailey
Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.
Alan Simpson
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Evelyn Underhill
Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.
Margaret Sackville
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.
Tom O'Connor
Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.
William Bolitho
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
G.K. Chesterton
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Boy George
Never regret. If it's good it's wonderful. If it's bad it's experience.
Victoria Holt
Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.
Arnold Bennett
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
Constance Naden
Keep strong if possible in any case keep cool.
Sir Basil Liddell Hart
Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
Aldous Huxley
Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep still thank Him that you live to lie awake.
John Oxenham
It is a delicious moment certainly that of being well-nestled in bed and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come not past the limbs are tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful the labor of the day is gone.
Leigh Hunt
O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head!
Thomas Hood
Shed as you do your garments your daily sins whether of omission or commission and you will wake a free man with a new life.
Sir William Osier
One by one the flowers close Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.
Christina G. Rossetti
Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
Edward Herbert
I think what has this day brought me and what have I given it?
Henry Moore
The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.
James Froude
For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.
Rudyard Kipling
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
Samuel Johnson
Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm and sec ond a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven Wagner Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
Ernest Newman
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.
Henry Chester
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy.
Thomas Arnold
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Sir Edward Appleton
To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy is success in life.
Walter Pater
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you have the will to win you have achieved half your success if you don't you have achieved half your failure.
David V. A. Ambrose
A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.
Hannah Moore
Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you say what you've got to say and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence
This indeed is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done yet without control of that passion its effects are largely ill or null.
F.L. Lucas
A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
Joanna Baillie
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Margery Allingham
No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine it may be superficial but it isn't fake.
P.D. James