Quotes by British Authors - Page 75

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D.H. Lawrence
Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp the latter for the council but to constitute a great man both are necessary.
Charles Caleb Colton
The real gift of love is self disclosure.
John Powell
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.
Angela Thirkell
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Ellis Peters
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty Beauty the outward form of Truth.
Grace Aguilar
No blame should attach to telling the truth.
Anita Brookner
Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
T.S Eliot
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.
Arthur Christopher Benson
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.
Joseph Rickaby
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
Joseph Farrell
Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!
Joseph Conrad
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.
C.S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
In politics guts is all.
Barbara Castle
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Winston Churchill
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
Winston Churchill
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Winston Churchill
Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson
Necessity does the work of courage.
George Eliot
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
G.K. Chesterton
Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Victoria
Just for a handful of silver he left us Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.
John Taylor
Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.
Samuel Butler
Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Bertrand Russell
We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Norman Douglas
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
William Warburton
Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel Johnson
Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out for if people are unwilling to hear you you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield
A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselves that they have taken material which should have a life of its own to disperse it in noises upon the air.
Cyril Connolly
Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
T.S Eliot
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.
James Morris
He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith
You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.
Sydney Smith
Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.
Rebecca West
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
Samuel Johnson
John Wesley's conversation is good but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.
Samuel Johnson
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
Horace Smith
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
Robert Southey
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter Bagehot
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
The soft whispers of the God in man.
Edward Young
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W Somerset Maugham
The only incorruptible thing about us.
Henry Fielding
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!
Lord Byron
I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
Michael Frayn
A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor