English Author Quotes

William Shakespeare

Charles Dickens

Jane Austen

Lord Byron

Lewis Carroll

Agatha Christie

Rudyard Kipling

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

Charles Dickens

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

Isaac Rosenberg

To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.

William Shakespeare

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Agatha Christie

There are times when Science does not satisfy.

Rudyard Kipling

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

G. K. Chesterton

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.

Thomas De Quincey

A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real value of what is contained therein.

Clara Lucas Balfour

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?

Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

The sea makes no promises and breaks none.

Lillian Beckwith

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Elizabeth Aston

Just in proportion as the soul is in fellowship with the Lord Jesus, in communion with His will, shall we trace His leadings, hear His voice, and understand in part.

Mobile phones... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.