Quotes by British Authors - Page 82

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Lady Astor
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
T.S Eliot
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.
Arthur Helps
To make pleasure pleasant shorten.
Charles Buxton
Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield
It is well enough when one is talking to a friend to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.
Mary Lamb
I give myself sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Wortley Montagu
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
Aldous Huxley
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife.
David Ogilvy
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
George Norman Douglas
Advertising is legalized lying.
H.G.Wells
Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
If it doesn't sell it isn't creative.
David Ogilvy
The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that if we are not careful we forget to be insulted by it.
The London Times
If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
James A. Froude
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
Frederick W. Robertson
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.
Bob Hope
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Edith Sitwell
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
Henry Moore
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Margot Asquith
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.
Samuel Johnson
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Richardson
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope not of despair.
C.V. Wedgwood
True knowledge comes only through suffering.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth.
Jessica Mitford
Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health.
Jane Austen
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Maureen Duffy
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
When things come to the worse they generally mend.
Susanna Moodie
If you do things well do them better. Be daring be first be different be just.
Anita Roddick
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott
(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.
Samuel Johnson
I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.
Charlotte Brontë
For fools admire but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee
He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.
Andrew Marvell
So much to do so little done.
Cecil Rhodes
When Adam dolve and Eve span Who was then the gentleman?
John Ball
When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.
Thomas Hood
God alone can finish.
John Ruskin
He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest
Do well and right and let the world sink.
George Edward Herbert
Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
W.S. Gilbert