Quotes by British Authors - Page 70

What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life.
Bertrand Russell
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheila Graham
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
Enthusiasm moves the world.
Arthur James Balfour
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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 Bulwer-Lytton
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
Henry Moore
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you And write by inward magic charm'd And high enthusiasm warm'd?
Joanna Baillie
Life is enthusiasm zest.
Sir Laurence Olivier
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
C.S. Lewis
With renunciation life begins.
Amelia Barr
Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Lord Byron
Enthusiasm is life.
Paul Scofield
The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Bertrand Russell
To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
Bertrand Russell
What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.
W.H. Auden
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
G.K. Chesterton
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.
Clement Freud
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
Henry Chester
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Benjamin Disraeli
Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.
Charles Churchill
Oh to be in England Now that April's there.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
If I should die think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.
Rupert Brooke
O it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
Thomas Dibdin
What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?
W. E. Henley
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
W.S. Gilbert
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."
Winston Churchill
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.
Samuel Johnson
The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.
Matthew Arnold
That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
Frank Adcock
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Hugh Casson
The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles each on its own side of the road each sounding its horn and each stationary.
Philip Guedalla
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change such as Bernard Shaw Keir Hardie Lloyd George Selfridge or Disraeli you will find that they are not really English at all but Irish Scotch Welsh American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes sometimes great changes. But secretly or openly they always deplore them.
Raymond Postgate
We are articulate but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence he sometimes says something.
Robert Morley
What should they know of England who only England know?
Rudyard Kipling
The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Thomas Beecham
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.
Cedric Hardwicke
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Clement Attlee
In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
David Ormsby Gore
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
James Agate
Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.
Lord Byron
Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.
T. Augustine Arne
Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!
Thomas Dibdin
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
V.S. Pritchett
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Winston Churchill
Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
Anthony Burgess
The young Cambridge group the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy and a whispering murmuring sort of voice and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
D.H. Lawrence
Land of hope and glory Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet.
A.C. Benson
Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"
Anthony Sampson
London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli
Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Charles Lamb
The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.
Clement Attlee
Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.
David Lloyd George