British Author Quotes

J. K. Rowling

C. S. Lewis

A. A. Milne

William Ralph Inge

Harold Pinter

Salman Rushdie

Enid Blyton

Nothing now remains for us seven but to go back to Stable Hill, proclaim the truth, and take the adventure that Aslan sends us.

Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

A great enormous thing, like — like nothing. A huge big — well, like a — I don't know — like an enormous big nothing.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Lady Margaret Sackville

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

William Ralph Inge

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

We who are left, how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echoed along the shore.
Artaxaminous: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar; And the first lion thought the last a bore.

William Barnes Rhodes

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil...

Winifred Holtby

It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone with them.

Isabel Colegate

He that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

Wouldst thou view the Lion's den? Search afar from haunts of men — Where the reed-encircled rill, Oozes from the rocky hill, By its verdure far descried 'Mid the desert brown and wide.

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

Philip Carr-Gomm

For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.

Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.' All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna. "I don't think so. I think it might be treason to kill a duke," said Luciano. "But you're not a duke," said Arianna. "I will be if you marry me," said Luciano. "Yes, you would be," said Arianna. "Would?" "If you are asking me." "I'm asking." "And if I accepted." "Do you?" "I do. With all my heart.

A child in my lap, being read to, and I find myself erect.

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law