Quotes by British Authors - Page 783

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
Joe Abercrombie
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
Winston S. Churchill
Nothing is yet in its true form.
C.S. Lewis
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
Clive Barker
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
Richard Dawkins
A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…
Sophie Kinsella
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
John Keats
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Banksy
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
Harold Pinter
Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.
Warsan Shire
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.
Daphne du Maurier
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
H.G.Wells
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
Darren Shan
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Doris Lessing
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.
W Somerset Maugham
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
C.S. Lewis
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
George Orwell
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C.S. Lewis
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
T.S Eliot
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C.S. Lewis
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Winston S. Churchill
The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
J.K. Rowling
The beauty of God, is God himself.
Anthony T.Hincks
I sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in love with the world.
Anthony T.Hincks
Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.
Anthony T.Hincks
When the whole world is against you and all you know seems lost. Know that God is right there standing at your side ready to catch you and put you back on your own two feet again.
Anthony T.Hincks
A week is an eternity between lovers.
Anthony T.Hincks
I never realized just how many things I really hated until you walked out the door and out of my life.
Anthony T.Hincks
You are what you are, and what you are is not me!
Anthony T.Hincks
I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!
Anthony T.Hincks
Sometimes when you live for the moment, that's all you've got.So don't waste it!
Anthony T.Hincks
My heart is the refuge where you will find everlasting love.
Anthony T.Hincks
Sometimes when you love someone so deeply, that is the thing that hurts the most.
Anthony T.Hincks
I long for acceptance, but all I get is rejection.
Anthony T.Hincks
I died of a broken heart.Oh! And the gunshot wound to the chest!
Anthony T.Hincks
Liking colors doesn't make you shallow.It gives you depth!
Anthony T.Hincks
Never deviate off the path that society has set for you. Otherwise you may find yourself in a place that you like.
Anthony T.Hincks
The world will go on with or without humanity.
Anthony T.Hincks
Sometimes, I just wish.
Anthony T.Hincks
War sells!
Anthony T.Hincks
You don't make money from peace.You make money from wars!
Anthony T.Hincks
I'm not insincere. I just don't care, that's all.
Anthony T.Hincks
Some of my best ideas come from when I'm sitting on the toilet.
Anthony T.Hincks
Rainbows make great pets,because they're already house trained.
Anthony T.Hincks
The beauty of having faith, is that no matter what the time of day, whether it be day or night I know that someone is always there with me to give me comfort.It doesn't matter whether it is Buddha, God or Allah because whoever it is, is special to each of us. And that is the beauty of having faith.
Anthony T.Hincks
Color is what gives me hope.Color is what gives me life.Color is what gives me love.And Color is what I get from you.
Anthony T.Hincks
Finding love on your doorstep will make you open up your heart to the world.
Anthony T.Hincks