Quotes by British Authors - Page 44

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha
Dorothy L. Sayers
Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort.
Emma Thompson
The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of.
Iris Murdoch
There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be its downfall.
Tony Moyle
Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.
Guy Deutscher
Everything stinks: creosote, bleach, disinfectant, soil, blood, gangrene.The military authorities say uniforms must be preserved at all costs, but that means manhandling patients who are in agony. Cut them off, says Sister Byrd, and she's the voice of authority here, in the Salle d'Attente, not some gold-braid-encrusted crustacean miles away from blood and pain, so cut they do, snip, snip, snip, snip, as close to the skin as they dare.On either side of Paul as he cuts are two long rows of feet: yellow, strong, calloused, scarred where blisters have formed and burst repeatedly. Since August they've done a lot of marching, these feet, and all their marching has brought them to this one place.
Pat Barker
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
C.S. Lewis
Jin looked both ways for the Quicksilver Dragon before crossing the canal.
Felix Long
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.
Penelope Gilliatt
He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of words should produce so magical an effect no one has yet been able to comprehend, and least of all the poets themselves.
Hilaire Belloc
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
Evelyn Waugh
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
C.S. Lewis
In the end we will realise that we only came to earth to love
Mimi Novic
A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future.
Samantha Young
Life can be moulded to suit individual desires.
Steven Redhead
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Aldous Huxley
The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring.
John Buchan
I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
Philip Pullman
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
Jane Austen
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
W Somerset Maugham
For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else.
C.S. Lewis
Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.
Virginia Woolf
People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.
Antonia Fraser
I glare at him and sigh. “Don't you understand what a book is?”“Obviously.”“Then how can it be boring? It's not just twenty-six little letters all mushed together to make words that link together to tell a story. It's the creation of another world where anything can happen and anyone can be whoever they want to be. It's a crazy, special kind of magic that can transport you out of the real world, to anywhere you want to go. It doesn't matter if it's a made-up universe or it's written in a city you can drive to within an hour. It's what happens within the pages that makes reading so...not boring.”-Emma Hart "Dirty Little Rendezvous (The Burke Brothers Spin-Off #1).
Emma Hart
[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
George Orwell
We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.
Sam Owen
Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.
N.T. Wright
An informed world is not only for today, but a legacy to shape a better world and future for tomorrow.
Alastair Agutter
Better make sure you’re not in my way when I go down.” My eyebrow lifted as I dipped my head to his level. “You wouldn’t want to get squashed.
J.A. Belfield
Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.
Virginia Woolf
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
Jane Austen
And is that what love looks like -- all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?""Sometimes it is.
David Nicholls
. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.
Neil Gaiman
Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.
Miriam Elia
They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.
Thomas Hardy
Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.
Roma Tearne
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.
Deborah Cater
Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.
Morrissey
I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
J.K. Rowling
Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
Jane Austen
Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.
Aleksandr Voinov
Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind.
Steven Poore
One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them; so that Arvis (though she remembered them years later) had only a vague impression of gray lawns, quietly bubbling fountains, and the long black shadows of cypress trees.
C.S. Lewis
If we wish to understand our own place on earth, we must seek to understand those who have gone on before us. We must look beyond the present moment and see ourselves reflected in the deep pool of time as individual elements of a greater humanity.
Ian Mortimer
All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that
Steven Aitchison
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Benjamin Disraeli
... Blood pounded inside his skull.The pounding became more distinct. A thundering and a racing of hoofs, rising like a storm over the hills to the north. The triumphant baying of the Saxon war-horns was echoed by others, more distant. These were higher, shriller, the prelude to the storm.Cavalry bugles. Bedwyr's lungs were full of smoke and blood, else he would have laughed.The dragon had come at last.
David Pilling
Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.
Elizabeth George
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;Lengthen night and shorten day;Every leaf speaks bliss to meFluttering from the autumn tree.I shall smile when wreaths of snowBlossom where the rose should grow;I shall sing when night’s decayUshers in a drearier day.
Emily Brontë
Failure is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
John Keats
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.
Alain de Botton
I'm living in a world of goldfish.
Mycroft Holmes
I think so,' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.
J.K. Rowling
Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.
Terry Pratchett
Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakable, golden belief that things can get better.
Alexander Gordon Smith
In a world of increasing fakery, genuine people are the sexiest.
Sam Owen
But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.
Terry Pratchett
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
James Allen