Quotes by British Authors - Page 9

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
Arthur Christopher Benson
There are certain natures to whom work is nothing the act of work everything.
Arthur Symons
Every woman is a human being-one cannot repeat that too often-and a human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Letitia Landon
The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
Winifred Holtby
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
G.K. Chesterton
Work is more fun than fun.
Noël Coward
If a little labour little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Robert Herrick
Work is of two kinds: first altering a position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter second telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill-paid the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Bertrand Russell
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley
I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Jerome K. Jerome
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Max Beerbohm
Routine is the god of every social system it is the seventh heaven of business the essential component in the success of every factory the ideal of every statesman.
Alfred North Whitehead
The monarchy is a labour-intensive industry.
Harold Wilson
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.
Bertrand Russell
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
Gerald Brenan
The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.
Anthony Burgess
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
David Hare
Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.
Matthew Prior
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are the signs of our ideas only and not for things themselves.
John Locke
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven.
Samuel Johnson
Our words have wings but fly not where we would.
George Eliot
They dream in courtship but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
Words of affection howsoe'er expressed The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
Joanna Baillie
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
R. H. Barham
A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair - (Even as you or I!)
Rudyard Kipling
Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely most politely Flatter and impress the lady Most politely most politely Humbly beg and humbly sue She may deign to look on you.
W.S. Gilbert
Who hesitate and falter life away and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
Matthew Arnold
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes work never begun.
Christina Rossetti
Yes I answered you last night "No " this morning sir I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.
E. B. Browning
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!
Lord Byron
There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads - God knows where.
Lord Byron
Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.
Lord Byron
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Brontë
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
Jeremy Collier
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
Joanna Field
O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!
Walter Scott
She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.
William Wordsworth
Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.
Alexander Pope
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Alexander Pope
Too fair to worship too divine to love.
Henry Hart Milman
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard Kipling
An' I learned about women from 'er.
Rudyard Kipling
The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.
Rudyard Kipling