British Author Quotes

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

I'm never happier than when I can write about draining swimming pools and abandoned hotels.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Drinkwater

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.

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)

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

Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

Because I longed to comprehend the infinite I drew a line between the known and unknown.

Elizabeth Bartlett

Strew your gladness on earth's bed,
So be merry, so be dead.

Charles Hamilton Sorley

The tranquil current of domestic happiness affords no materials for narrative.

My love for my father has never been touched or approached by any other love. I hold him in my heart of hearts as a man apart from all other men, as one apart from all other beings.

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

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

Reginald Horace Blyth

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

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Woods are to us anything but solitudes - they are populous and inexhaustible worlds, where creatures that mock the grasp but not the mind, a matchless phantasmagoria, flit before us; alternately make us merry with their pleasant follies, delight us with their romantic grandeur and beauty, and elevate our hearts with their sublime sentiments.

What is seen must always be the outcome of much that is unseen.

Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.

He turned then to Job, again using the King James's version. The translation from the Hebrew was narrower than the Greek but seemed more essential. It was the simple strong prose of men who believed and who were unafraid to name things.

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

Frederic William Farrar

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

Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.