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.

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

Adrian Mitchell

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.

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

William Ralph Inge

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

Lady Margaret Sackville

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.

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

Tobias Smollett

Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Reginald Horace Blyth

Red lights are like queues. They are for people who have time to waste.

Railways and the Church have their critics, but both are the best ways of getting a man to his ultimate destination.

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

Frederic William Farrar

We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.

The trouble was, she could not see the justice of her state. She was not old: she was a girl hidden behind a mask. Now that she had realized she was no longer young, she did not know how she should behave. She had become a stranger in her own life.

The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too hard for them, and artists use it as a window in a watch-tower. Psychologists call it a psychological mechanism; magicians call it magic, and the man in the street calls it illusion or charlatanry according to taste. It does not matter to me what it is called, for it is effectual.

I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.

Janice Galloway

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

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.

That he loved her was his life's greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you.

Stuart Hill (author)

From age to age, Love's word rings forth, The truth is true and all is well, Unconquerable life prevails.

Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.