Quotes by British/United Kingdom authors (page 2)

"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me"

"I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do"

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

"Good words are worth much, and cost little"

George Herbert, Poet

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise"

George Herbert, Poet

"There can be economy only where there is efficiency"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The fool wonders, the wise man asks"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Sin is geographical"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"People can put their best poems straight onto the web"

Roger McGough, Poet

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back"

Jason Statham, Actor

"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army"

George Herbert, Poet

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"

William Edward Hickson, Writer

"The busy have no time for tears"

Lord Byron, Poet

"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends"

Enoch Powell, Politician

"Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger"

Mark Rutherford, Writer

"The shortest answer is doing"

George Herbert, Poet

"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge"

George Herbert, Poet

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"We cannot afford to lose any more species to extinction. It is our responsibility to protect and preserve the natural world for future generations"

Peter Knights, Activist

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying"

William Edward Hickson, Writer

"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored"

Lord Byron, Poet

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past"

Virginia Woolf, Author

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Quotes by British authors