Quotes by British/United Kingdom authors (page 3)

"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy"

"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"

John Dyer, Artist

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

Christian Bale, Actor

"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks"

Lord Acton, Historian

"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands"

Robert Conquest, Historian

"Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light"

Ellis Peters, Author

"His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind"

Anne Bronte, Novelist

"The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"A man is literally what he thinks"

James Allen, Author

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters"

George Herbert, Poet

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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

Lord Byron, Poet

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Fame is the thirst of youth"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"

George Orwell, Author

"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done"

Jane Austen, Writer