Quotes by british authors

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us. Frederick William Faber

Music Nature Natural Song Words World Angel Men Power Lost Earth Way Kind Kind Words Wounds Some Seems Had Putting Come Beyond Causes Were Hearts Which While Us Sang Sweetest

Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge. Gareth Gates

Work Hard Work Phone Challenge Job Young Living Interviews Rings Someone Chat Adult Takes Stutter How Prove Up Handle Person Young Adults Biggest Biggest Challenge Average Average Person Granted Hard Things

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot

Great Jokes Great Strain Affections Taste Difference Strain

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. George Eliot

Truth Bite Through Rough

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot

Love Jealousy Anger Lose Sight Objects More Bear Than

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot

Hope Despair Our Only Call Often Painful Eagerness

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away. George Harrison

At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts. George Harrison

Death Spiritual Knowledge You Guidance World Kind Inside Physical Some Physical World Boundaries Beyond Counts Going Inner Needing

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is. George Harrison

Life You Gone Having No Point Purpose Point Through Feel Knowing Without Goal Dying Realized Your Fortunate Who Basically

Love and a cough cannot be hid. George Herbert

Love Hid Cough Cannot

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. George Herbert

Truth Anger Fault Calm Arguing Makes Error

Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert

Life Half Before Spent Know

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. George Michael

Business Ego Self-Satisfaction Pretend Total Vanity Built Crap Whole

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. George Michael

Government Bullying Consider Bullies American American Government

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really. George Michael

Own My Own Surprised Survived Dysfunction Really

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. George Mikes

Alone He Queue Orderly Forms Even Englishman

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. George Orwell

Innocent Guilty Until Judged Always Proved Saints Should

Four legs good, two legs bad. George Orwell

Good Bad Legs Four Two

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. George Orwell

Age Feelings Seven Seems Adult True Instinctive Eight Your Expose

The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm. George Osborne

Internet Crime Made Become Ways Dreamt Attack Could Freer Also Espionage Informed Us Richer Connected Founders Harm

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. Graham Greene

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Graham Greene

Kindness Relationship Worth Relationships Thousand Lies Truths Human Human Relationships

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. Graham Greene

People Same Thing Proletariat About Nobody Talk Terms Governments Same Human Human Beings Should Mugs Beings Why Thing Thinks