13872 Quotes by English authors

English quotations carry a crisp, wry music: understatement sharpened by irony, tenderness tempered by restraint. They wander hedgerows and factory streets alike, weighing justice, manners, longing, and folly with a steady eye. Weather becomes character; time treads softly but leaves marks. From the cadence of the theater to the quiet sting of the essay, language delights in double meanings and exactness. Here humor is dry as chalk, romance practical, rebellion polite yet stubborn, and memory lit by drizzle, hearthlight, and a steadfast faith in ordinary courage.

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"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it"

David Hockney, Artist

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"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence"

Robert Peel, Leader

"The price of greatness is responsibility"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

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"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

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"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it"

Noel Coward, Playwright

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"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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"I am easily satisfied with the very best"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love"

William Wordsworth, Poet

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"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

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"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

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"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction"

William Blake, Poet

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"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'"

Lewis Carroll, Author

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"Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race"

H.G. Wells, Author

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"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

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"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"A light heart lives long"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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"Listen to many, speak to a few"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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"With foxes we must play the fox"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite"

William Blake, Poet

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"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there"

Robert Browning, Poet

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"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

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"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed"

Edward Young, Poet

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"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God"

Robert Browning, Poet

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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

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"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world"

John Le Carre, Author

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