British Translator Quotes

William Tyndale
Richard Challoner
Isabel Burton
Edwin Muir
John Gibson Paton
Philip Sherrard

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

William Tyndale
William Tyndale
The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.

I was invited to Romania at least once, but was warned that I should not be free to travel where I pleased in the country, but should be more or less confined to the Writers' Union. Because I ceased long ago to be an urban poet and feel claustrophobic in literary conferences, I could not accept such an invitation.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.

This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good!

John Gibson Paton
John Gibson Paton
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it...

Isabel Burton
Isabel Burton
The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn't know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

We do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for the world of nature because we do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for ourselves. It is because we cripple and mutilate ourselves that we cripple and mutilate everything else as well. Our contemporary crisis is really our own depravity writ large.

Philip Sherrard
Philip Sherrard
What we ask of God, is mercy, grace, and salvation: now our faith assures us, there is no means of coming at mercy, grace, or salvation, but through Jesus Christ.

Richard Challoner
Richard Challoner
Behold the state of man's unstable mind,
Still prone to change with every changing wind!
All our resolves are weak, but weakest prove
Where sprung from sense of disappointed love.

Slung between the homely poplars at the end of the familiar avenue, the Great Bear in its lighted hammock swings, like a neglected gate that neither bars admission nor invites, hangs on the sagging pole its seven-pointed shape.