Quotes by English/England authors (page 14)

"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"By night an atheist half believes in a God"

Edward Young, Poet

"A God all mercy is a God unjust"

Edward Young, Poet

"A friend is worth all hazards we can run"

Edward Young, Poet

"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety"

Edward Young, Poet

"The purpose firm is equal to the deed"

Edward Young, Poet

"All men think all men mortal, but themselves"

Edward Young, Poet

"All men think that all men are mortal but themselves"

Edward Young, Poet

"Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more"

Edward Young, Poet

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Great and good are seldom the same man"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"A joke is a very serious thing"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female"

Desmond Morris, Scientist

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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Quotes by English authors