Quotes by English/England authors (page 4)

"I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached"

Mary Astell, Writer

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure"

George Canning, Statesman

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days"

Clement Attlee, Leader

"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me"

Charles Townshend, Politician

"Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching"

Alan Bennett, Dramatist

"Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"I will praise any man that will praise me"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"A good friend is my nearest relation"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist"

David Hockney, Artist

"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth"

H.G. Wells, Author

"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants"

William Penn, Leader

"You was a good man, and did good things"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews"

Laurence Housman, Playwright