British Author Quotes

The Jewish religion has it completely right in maintaining you should think very carefully about what you eat.

Still-born Silence! thou that art
Floodgate of the deeper heart.

Richard Flecknoe

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

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

Gwendoline Riley

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

I never like anyone till I've seen him at his worst.

Its blasphemy enabled man to break free from the Bible and Koran with their life-denying fundamentalists and hell fire such fanatics love to fan.

The only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

Jon Wynne-Tyson

Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.

Jacqueline Rayner

The words you spoke were frenzied prayers to chemistry..

Carol Ann Duffy

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

I think my future largely depends now on what happens to my mammoth novel (about the Indian rebellion of 1942).

Paul Scott (novelist)

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood.... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

Sheila Kaye-Smith

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

George Colman the Elder

We all have our demons to deal with, Little Pigeon. It's when we cherish them - cradle them to our breasts and feed them, day after day-that's when they curdle our souls.

Susan Fletcher (British author)

Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

Peter Gandy (author)

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

Then we shall rise
And view ourselves with clearer eyes
In that calm region where no night
Can hide us from each other's sight.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

The sun, we say, is the cause of heat, but the heat is the sun, hence on this window-ledge.

William Hale White

They need only adapt to the circumstances that old Lydian tradition which says that games of chance were invented during great famine. Men permitted themselves to eat only every second day, and tried to forget their hunger by playing at draughts and dice.

I saw a man this morning
Who did not wish to die;
I ask and cannot answer
If otherwise wish I.

Patrick Shaw-Stewart