Quotes by british authors

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Winston Churchill

Survival Heart Suffering Draw Shall Inspiration Itself Means

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world. Neil Gaiman

Health Library Mental Health World Safety Space Citizen Community Every Mental Haven Gives Equal Access Repository Information Place

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. Sarah Fielding

Moving On Kindness Heart Healing Words Honey More Balm Than

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston Churchill

Needs Tomorrow Year Politician Month Ability Week Foretell Going Happen Afterwards Explain Next Next Year Why

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. Charles Spurgeon

Man Peace Revenge Pride Thought Contentment Ambition Lust Too Humility Exalted Unworthy Idolatry Gods Often While Holiness Viewed Serious

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. Charlotte Bronte

Hope Dreams Broken Silence Thoughts Heart Human Heart Secret Pleasures Hidden Hopes Charms Revealed Were Human Sealed Whose Treasures Kept

Justice delayed is justice denied. William E. Gladstone

Justice Delayed Denied

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Winston Churchill

Opportunities Difficulties Mastered Won

History is written by the victors. Winston Churchill

History Written Victors

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. Winston Churchill

History Secrets Lies Study Study History

Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert

Best Revenge Living Well

Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it's a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it's there, and you particularly notice it when it isn't. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal. John Lanchester

You Business Welcome People Single Meal Nice Define Significant Restaurant Restaurant Business Entire Area Hospitality Idea Feel Particularly Involves Mostly Making Impression Dominant Precisely Being Central Them Being Nice Notice Your Hard Lapse

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. Bertrand Russell

You Science Philosophy Know

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. George Orwell

People Hatred Fighting Lies Invariably Screaming Who

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. Lord Byron

Will Fools Those Dare Cannot Bigots Reason Who Slaves

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot

Pet Animals Criticisms Pass Questions Friends Ask Agreeable

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot

Life Live Difficult Other Make Less Each