Quotes by british authors

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell

Patriotism Willingness Trivial Reasons

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore. Billy Idol

Love Me Be Nice Nice Someone Insults Anymore Means

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. Charles Spurgeon

Life God Faith Alone Grace Christ Resting Saving Relation Virtue Immediate Him Accepting Sanctification Eternal Justification Eternal Life Receiving

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things. Charles Spurgeon

Great Gratitude Joy Own Our Tell Would Great Joy Remembering Sorrow How Done Story Conversion Little Used Deserve Things

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen. Daniel Radcliffe

Life Nature You Chapter Changing Way Those Definite Both Through Exciting Suppose Know Also Periods Because Always Go Very Times Going Closing Whenever Upsetting Happen Transition Certain Your Things

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate. Donna Air

Life Me You Made My Life Changes Kind Life Experiences More Open Like Learn Judgmental Lot Very Times Person Quite Experiences Them Twenties Compassionate Humbling

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. Ernest Benn

Politics Art Trouble Looking Everywhere Finding Remedies Wrong Applying Incorrectly

I dress to kill, but tastefully. Freddie Mercury

Dress

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. George Eliot

Great Together Small Things Great Things Brought Small Done Impulse Series Things

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. George Herbert

Confidence Army Skill

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. George Orwell

Man Every Inside Thin Fat Fat Man

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. George Orwell

You Fight Yourself Dirty Survive Often To Survive Necessary

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. George Orwell

Will Seem Winning Invincible Always Moment Whoever

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. George Orwell

Family Control Members Phrase Wrong Come Perhaps England Describing Near

I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. Idris Elba

Saying Myself Journey Competition My Journey Long Arrogant Consider Never Still Ambitious Person Just Anyone Stand Standpoint Started

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. James M. Barrie

Life Man Every Write Writes Volume He Hour Vowed Make Another His Diary Story Which Means Compares Every Man Humblest

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Jane Austen

Day Nature Sit Fine Fine Day Shade Perfect Look Most Refreshment

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Jane Austen

You People Will More Them Themselves Less Who

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. John Donne

Motivational World Own Thy Jail Palace Thine

The way I drive, the way I handle a car, is an expression of my inner feelings. Lewis Hamilton

Car Drive Feelings Way Handle Expression Inner Inner Feelings

The best prophet of the future is the past. Lord Byron

Future Best Past Prophet

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Lord Byron

Jealousy Enemies Indeed Spice Must Something Self Generally Never Because Always Friends May Lovers Speculations