Quotes by British Authors - Page 131

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Ouida
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Charles Lamb
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
Lord Chesterfield
Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branagh
No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.
Nick Harkaway
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
Nick Hornby
Don't eat the bread unless you want to leave bread crumbs.
Anthony T.Hincks
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Henry Christopher Bailey
An important ethical function of identity politics, in this context, is to highlight that obstacles to the self-development of individuals, and to the formation and exercise of their agency, emerge in complex cultural and psychic forms, as well as through more familiar kinds of socio-economic inequality.
Michael Kenny
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley
It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of men's incomprehension of women, a symptom of women's mistrust of men.
Francis Wyndham
Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.
Siegfried Sassoon
When it comes to dress, we are supposedly free to wear whatever we want - but if this is the case, why do we wear such similar clothes? Why are we choosing to wear shoes that are almost perfectly designed to make walking as difficult as possible?
Caroline Criado-Pérez
My mother had not acted for ten years. Not since a reviewer wrote that her portrayal of Lady Macbeth put him in mind of an exasperated society hostess burdened with unmannerly guests who had lost the new tennis balls, left the bathrooms in a mess, and finished the gin.
Victoria Clayton
Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435
Joseph Delaney
Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.
Margot Asquith
Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.
Steven Moffat