Quotes by british authors

The Internet gave us access to everything; but it also gave everything access to us. James Veitch

Internet Gave Everything Also Access Us

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. Jane Austen

Considerable Pleasure Foolish Surprises Often Enhanced Things Inconvenience

Is not general incivility the very essence of love? Jane Austen

Love General Very Essence

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. Jane Austen

Speak Enough Well Well Enough Cannot Unintelligible

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. Jane Austen

Politics Silence Easy Step

Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go. Jason Statham

Revenge Say Go Caustic Breathe Deeply Thing

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there. Jeff Beck

My job is to make sure there's something about each dress that ignites the bride's imagination. Jenny Packham

Job Imagination Dress About Something Make Sure Bride Each

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you. Jo Brand

You People Comedy Bitterness Feeling Think Perfectly Know Make Acceptable Years Comment Accumulate Your Appearance Even

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. John Donne

Joy Hell Damp Despair Heaven Serenity

Women are women, and hurray for that. John Galliano

Women Women Are

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve. John Lanchester

Government Democracy People Kind Tend Get Deserve

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered. John Polkinghorne

Too Much Thinking Too Very Much Theological Present

It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money. John Sulston

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. John Tillotson

Great Ignorance Ruin Causes Mankind Two

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life. Jonathan Sacks

Life God Time Food Day Prayer Book Our Collectively Introspection Rarest Atonement Written Instead Without Pray Repeatedly Sins Festival Confess Holy Fasting Phenomena Jewish

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. Josiah Stamp

Consequences Our We Cannot Responsibilities Easy Dodge Dodging Cannot

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered. Julian Baggini

Those Bothered Know Leftovers Either Them Who Wasteful

To rally every black sheep is my goal. Julian Cope

Black Sheep Every Rally Black Sheep Goal

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible. Justin Cartwright

Strange Corruption Crime South Africa Sense Possible About Seems Stimulating South Offer Africa Anything Anything Is Possible Strange Thing Thing

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life. Karl Pilkington

Life Money Simple Simple Life Lazy Lead Fairly Much Need