Quotes by British Authors - Page 80

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
T.S Eliot
Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night.
William Blake
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
Arnold Toynbee
Ring out the old ring in the new Ring happy bells across the snow.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
O thrush your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
William Morris
Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Princess Anne
In my beginning is my end.
T.S Eliot
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock Ellis
You can't buy love but you can pay heavily for it.
Henny Youngman
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Dinah Mulock Craik
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand Russell
Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D.H. Lawrence
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
W Somerset Maugham
He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
Walter Scott
Beauty is truth truth beauty.
John Keats
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
Beauty is power a smile is its sword.
Charles Reade
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.
Isaac Watts
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Lord Byron
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
John Lyly
Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
John Keats
The excellence of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeables evaporate from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
John Keats
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
John Ruskin
Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.
Ben Jonson
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.
Lord Shaftesbury
Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
W Somerset Maugham
Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
W Somerset Maugham
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour.
William Bolitho
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
Douglas Jerrold
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
By night an atheist half believes in God.
Edward Young
The year's in the wane There is nothing adoring The night has no eve And the day has no morning Cold winter gives warning!
Thomas Hood
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Ben Jonson
It's clever but is it art?
Rudyard Kipling
Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
D.H. Lawrence
Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith
I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
John Murray Gibbon
The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.
Osbert Sitwell
In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
Kenneth Boulding
Art is man's nature nature is God's art.
P. J. Bailey
History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Joseph Conrad
Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
Wyndham Lewis
We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.
Henry James
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
G.K. Chesterton
Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.
Benjamin Disraeli
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.
Lord Byron
Never argue at the dinner table for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Richard Whately
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin
Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?
Charles
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Charles
Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe and restores to us forgotten paradises.
Edith Sitwell