Quotes by British Authors - Page 79

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan Italy than to Vancouver.
Simon Hoggart
Cutting honest throats by whispers.
Walter Scott
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
Winston Churchill
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.
Ben Jonson
Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.
Duke of Wellington
The consumer is not a moron she is your wife.
David Ogilvy
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.
Gerald Massey
Every man has his price.
Sir Robert Walpole
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
E. V. Knox
In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.
D.H. Lawrence
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Cecil Beaton
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
William Ralph Inge
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Charles Caleb Colton
The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.
William Ralph Inge
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.
Arthur Helps
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell
He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.
Sydney Smith
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to us as brothers.
Charles Kingsley
Laws die Books never.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
He is an old bore even the grave yawns for him.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Beware of the man of one book.
Isaac D'Israeli
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
John Ruskin
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Arthur Helps
If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Arthur Helps
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
Francis Yeats-Brown
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
Samuel Butler
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Benjamin Jowett
Books think for me.
Charles Lamb
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
Samuel Butler
Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.
Samuel Johnson
Laws die books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.
Herbert Asquith
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Lytton Strachey
What is reading but silent conversation?
Walter Savage Landor
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. Auden
Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Anthony Trollope
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.
Arthur Balfour
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Benjamin Disraeli
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Richard de Bury
Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.
Walter Sickert
If a book is worth reading at all it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on appreciation causes you to linger.
William Gerhardie
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess
A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
Robert Burchfield
All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good but by being bold.
Anita Brookner
God bless us every one.
Charles Dickens
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Lady Nancy Astor
Personally I think any more than two or three kids is not a family it's a litter.
Tracey Ullman
To what do you attribute your advanced age? Well I suppose I must attribute it to the fact that I have not died.
Sir Malcolm Sargent
I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
Douglas Jerrold