Quotes by British Authors - Page 77

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
In the busy haunts of men.
Felicia D. Hemans
There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.
Theo Cowan
A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.
Alfred North Whitehead
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a headache since you arrived but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
Simon Hoggart
Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Benjamin Disraeli
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
Walter Scott
Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
W.H. Auden
Hark the herald angels sing "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled!
Charles Wesley
See the Gospel Church secure And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine Tell to after-ages tell Fortified by power divine The Church can never fail.
Charles Wesley
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Edward Gibbon
Let's dance and sing and make good cheer For Christmas comes but once a year.
G. MacFarren
God rest ye little children let nothing you affright For Jesus Christ your Saviour was born this happy night Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay When Christ the Child of Nazareth was born on Christmas day.
Dinah Mulock Craik
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.
Samuel Butler
Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
C.S. Lewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.
C.S. Lewis
Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Lord Byron
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Katharine Whitehorn
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
Mathew Hale
Unlike Christianity which preached a peace that it never achieved Islam unashamedly came with a sword.
Stephen Runciman
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli
His Christianity was muscular.
Benjamin Disraeli
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Michael Bruce
Onward Christian soldiers Marching as to war With the cross of Jesus Going on before.
Sabine Baring-Gould
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
Eleanor Farjeon
Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.
Robert Browning
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley
A child's a plaything for an hour.
Mary Lamb
Do ye hear the children weeping O my brothers?
E. B. Browning
A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
Lord Byron
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
William Thackeray
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air unwholesome food improperly severe labor or erring habits of life.
John Ruskin
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast
George Edward Herbert
Our charity begins at home And mostly ends where it begins.
Horace Smith
Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.
Anita Brookner
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson
Human improvement is from within outward.
James Froude
You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known.
Owen Meredith
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
Ashley Montagu
Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Conscience is a treacherous thing and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.
Margaret Lane
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.
Saki
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.
Dean William R. Inge
The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.
Lady Constance Lytton
I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Margaret Thatcher
Good but not religious-good.
Thomas Hardy
He was not of an age but for all time.
Ben Jonson
He has not a single redeeming defect.
Benjamin Disraeli
Everything changes but change.
Israel Zangwill
Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Honi soit qui mal y pense.)
Motto for the Order of the Garter
As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.
Robert Whittington
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson
The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley
Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
I am not now That which I have been.
Lord Byron
The old order changeth yielding place to new.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness and of the mystery of change.
Alice Meynell