Quotes by british authors

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. Helen Fielding

Good Day You Free Year Whatever Think Ease Would Would-Be Eat More Rationally Consume Generally Idea New Began Dieting Hangover Order Sensible January Much Really Your Moment Necessary Second Need Resolutions Good Idea

I am happiest now. There's nothing like running out of time to make you realise you're in the right skin, with the right person, and that the Apocalypse will happen with or without you. Howard Jacobson

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional. Howard Jacobson

Time Day Fate Independence Bitterness Rare Free Master Single Met Before Our Way Those Independence Day Married Bad Easy Stay Divorce Delusional Parties Call Return Returning Go Were Lingers Often After Who Things

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. J. B. Priestley

You Yourself People Some People Be Yourself Advice Worst Some About Give

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. James Allen

Good Thoughts Fruit Bad Bear Good Thoughts

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. James Allen

Strength Result Results Affairs Effort Efforts Human Human Affairs Measure

Those who do not complain are never pitied. Jane Austen

Complain Those Never Pitied Who

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen

Man Every Neighborhood Spies Voluntary Surrounded Every Man

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. Jane Austen

Education World Girl Settling Further Introduce Give Properly Ten She Well Without Expense Anybody Means Her

Nobody minds having what is too good for them. Jane Austen

Good Too Minds Having Nobody Them

One man's style must not be the rule of another's. Jane Austen

Man Style Rule Must Another

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. Jane Austen

Worse Throats Sore Always Than Anyone

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. Jane Austen

Woman Sometimes Before Ten Ten Years She Years Than Happens

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society. Jeremy Corbyn

Good Unions Society More Equal Force Trade Trade Unions

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. Jeremy Taylor

Reward Every Virtue Unto Ingredient Act

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. Jeremy Taylor

Soul Language Meditation Our Spirit Tongue

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne

Love Beauty Soon Built Dies

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. John Henry Newman

Gentleman Pain Say Definition Never He Almost Who