Quotes by British Authors - Page 71

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
Edmund C. Bentley
The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.
Frank Field
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
Lord Rosebery
If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
Rupert Brooke
The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
Stevie Smith
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
England is a nation of voyeurs.
Nigel Newton
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G.K. Chesterton
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
Lord Chesterfield
He did nothing in particular And did it very well.
W.S. Gilbert
Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
David Wood
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Huxley
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.
John Wolfenden
Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
Alfred North Whitehead
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T.S Eliot
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T.S Eliot
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge
When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.
Lord Samuel
On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.
Malcolm Bradbury
We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition by forcing the student to stand back from it.
Roger Scruton
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.
Rudyard Kipling
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
Winston Churchill
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
Christ the Lord is risen today Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high Sing ye heavens and earth reply.
Charles Wesley
Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
England expects every man to do his duty.
Lord Horatio Nelson
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell
Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.
Randle Cotgrave
Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
A.E. Housman
What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.
Kenneth Tynan
Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.
Samuel Johnson
Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.
Samuel Johnson
One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.
Leigh Hunt
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls With vassals and serfs at my side.
Alfred Bunn
When nothing is sure everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?"
Beatrice Potter Webb
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
Frances Ridley Havergal
To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
Bertrand Russell
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
George Eliot
Not seeing is half-believing.
Vita Sackville-West
The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.
Mark Rutherford
The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.
Mark Rutherford
Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith
Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight.
Horatio Nelson
When I was young I was sure of everything in a few years having been mistaken a thousand times I was not half so sure of most things as I was before at present I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.
John Wesley
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
Owen Meredith
There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.
Sir Ian Hamilton
There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
W Somerset Maugham
There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
Samuel Butler
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.
Barbara Ward