Quotes by British Authors - Page 8

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Charles Caleb Colton
Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Alexander Pope
Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod. They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.
Felicia D. Hemans
But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
T.E. Lawrence
Worry less about what other people think about you and more about what you think about them.
Fay Weldon
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
Henry Saint John
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
Mark Rutherford
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.
Winston Churchill
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
Bertrand Russell
Worry is a form of fear.
Bertrand A. Russell
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
John Lubbock
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
Arnold Bennett
Worry is a god invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli
The world is God's world after all.
Charles Kingsley
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 Sweet wife. No never come over again.
Charles Kingsley
The world is full of beauty as other worlds above And if we did our duty it might be as full of love.
Gerald Massey
This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
A mad world my masters.
John Taylor
So many worlds so much to do So little done such things to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four.
Samuel Johnson
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Douglas Jerrold
The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn Morning's at seven The hillside's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven - All's right with the world!
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.
Henry Arthur Jones
I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.
Lord Byron
Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.
William Blake
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
James Howell
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K. Jerome
When Adam dolve and Eve span Who was then the gentleman?
John Ball
We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.
Penelope Lively
How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame But each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of things as They Are!
Rudyard Kipling
Better to wear out than to rust out.
Bishop Cumberland
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes by virtue of their common womanhood the property of all women.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.
Penelope Lively
My whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me.
Queen Elizabeth II
Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal do not beg do not grovel. Take courage join hands stand beside us fight with us.
Christabel Pankhurst
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
Germaine Greer
Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
Anna Howard Shaw
Ideally couples need three lives one for him one for her and one for them together.
Jacqueline Bisset
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.
Germaine Greer
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
Anna Jameson
It's not the having it's the getting.
Elizabeth Taylor
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Brontë
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
Lillie Langtry
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
John Ruskin
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Some people are born to lift heavy weights some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
Sydney Smith
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing and if you are good enough at it the money will come.
Greer Garson
Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
Bertrand Russell