Famous quotes by Authors

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"This is one of the miracles of love: it gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism"

George Orwell, Author

"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

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men"

George Orwell, Author

"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible"

George Orwell, Author

"The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent"

George Orwell, Author

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others"

George Orwell, Author

"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them"

George Orwell, Author

"The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time"

George Orwell, Author

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting"

George Orwell, Author

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent"

George Orwell, Author

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