Quotes by English authors

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Charles Dickens

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"He would make a lovely corpse"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Edward Young

"Wishing of all employments is the worst"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Procrastination is the thief of time"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"A man of pleasure is a man of pains"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The house of laughter makes a house of woe"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"A Christian is the highest style of man"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Truth never was indebted to a lie"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The course of Nature is the art of God"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Less base the fear of death than fear of life"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Virtue alone has majesty in death"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"How blessings brighten as they take their flight"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Wise it is to comprehend the whole"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The man that makes a character, makes foes"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"None think the great unhappy, but the great"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"By all means use some time to be alone"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"They only babble who practise not reflection"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure"

Edward Young, Poet

Winston Churchill

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"History is written by the victors"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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