Quotes by British Authors - Page 81

When you read and understand a poem comprehending its rich and formal meanings then you master chaos a little.
Stephen Spender
There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse our gestures our digestive tracts the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Yehudi Menuhin
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
John Ruskin
Handsome is that handsome does.
Henry Fielding
Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved most people expand under it into richer and better selves.
Joseph Farrell
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Lord Chesterfield
Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.
W.S. Gilbert
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Samuel Johnson
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Dean William R. Inge
Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.
Malcolm Lowry
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.
Charles Lamb
Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Beilby Porteous
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
Benjamin Disraeli
If't were not for my cat and dog I think I could not live.
Ebenezer Elliott
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence
A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.
William Blake
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Hi handsome hunting man Fire your little gun Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again creep again leap again Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh what fun.
Walter de la Mare
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
T.S Eliot
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.
William Blake
Cats no less liquid than their shadows Offer no angles to the wind. They slip diminished Neat through loopholes Less than themselves.
A.S.J. Tessimond
A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.
Hilaire Belloc
America is God's crucible the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The Real American has not yet arived. He is only in the crucible Itell you - he will be the fusion of all races the common superman.
Israel Zangwill
Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
E.M. Forster
A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.
D. W. Brogan
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
G.K. Chesterton
After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
Cecil Beaton
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsewhere everybody here wants to be Somebody.
Sydney J. Harris
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
V.S. Pritchett
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
Harold Macmillan
Florida: God's waiting room.
Glenn le Grice
The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
W. L. George
That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold
It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.
Sandy Wilson
When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
Malcolm Muggeridge
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
T.S Eliot
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
An old codger rampant and still learning.
Aldous Huxley
When I was very young I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good and equally good. That however was really laziness. Now thank goodness I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.
G. B. Stern
When pain ends gain ends too.
Robert Browning
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Arnold Bennett
One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!
J.B. Priestley
The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.
T.S Eliot
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
Anthony Powell
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
Gerald Brenan
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
Lord Cecil
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.
Richard Hughes
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant Youth shows but half Trust God see all nor be afraid."
Robert Browning