Quotes by British Authors - Page 78

Readjusting is a painful process but most of us need it at one time or another.
Arthur Christopher Benson
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Dodie Smith
In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.
Francis Thompson
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
Mary Bateson
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity not a threat.
Prince Phillip of England
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C.S. Lewis
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.
Agatha Christie
Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.
George Eliot
Change is the only evidence of life.
Evelyn Waugh
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer
To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary
The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
Freya Stark
As one gets older one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Noël Coward
I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.
Samuel Butler
What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.
T.S Eliot
There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty.
Thomas Hood
What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.
T.S Eliot
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion and if we were sure stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Samuel Johnson
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Lord Chesterfield
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
Walter Bagehot
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Edward de Bono
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.
Edward Coke
The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.
James Holland
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
Herbert Casson
As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.
P.G. Wodehouse
Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.
Charles Buxton
Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
Northcote Parkinson
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Harold Geneen
One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Paul Getty
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.
George Canning
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
Robert Heller
Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.
Friedrich Hayek
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.
Northcote Parkinson
Expenditure rises to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
David Lloyd George
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit is the essence of fairness.
Conrad Black
The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V.S. Pritchett
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
Lister Sinclair
Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.
Richard Staines
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
Anthony Burgess
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them yet cannot make plain his difference.
J.B. Priestley
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
Kenneth Boulding
There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'
Rudyard Kipling
Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.
Rupert Brooke
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.
Wyndham Lewis
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
Goldwin Smith
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
T.E. Hulme
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin
The father of confederation is deadlock.
Goldwin Smith