Quotes by british authors

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. George Herbert

You Speak Pay Unless Debts Mean Them

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it. George Michael

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion. George Michael

Time You World Compassion Before Gone Resources Way Out Running Perceived Almost Because Grab Taught Where Place Media

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. George Mikes

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? George Orwell

Politics You Yourself Free Draw Embraced Advantage Surely Material Proves Expect Any Cannot Ordinary Which Appears Right Creed

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. George Orwell

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. George Orwell

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell

War Good Human Being Only Dead Human Being Good Human

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them. Gerald Scarfe

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love. Geri Halliwell

Love You Believe Think Unnecessary Sake Truthful Being Mean Being Mean

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. Gertrude Jekyll

Work Wisdom Alone Knowledge Garden Other Kinds Some Perceiving Only Also Well Arrangement Gain Acquire Decorative

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. Gilbert Murray

The real business of life is trying to understand each other. Gilbert Parker

Life Business Other Understand Real Trying Each

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word. Giles Andreae

Beautiful Depression Me Joy World Gift Simple Word Rare Our One Thing Delight Feel Another Spread Human Taught Capacity Reason Now Why Compelled Thing Treasure Here

For me, green is more about cycling than recycling. Giles Deacon

Me Recycling Cycling About More Than Green

With all my clients I work with, they all have their absolute specialness about them. Giles Deacon

Work About Absolute Clients Them

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. Glenda Jackson

Better Sometimes Nothing Believe Know Than Anything Used Now

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. Glenn Hoddle

You People Karma Some People Some Born Given Physically Lifetime Like Another Been Brains Hands Legs Working Reason Two

Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers. Gordon Brown

Money Collective Action Hiding Haven Could Safe Safe Haven Islands Tax Places Mean Union European European Union Treasure

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? Graham Greene

Faith You Mask Lose Abandon Abandoned Alternative Another Always Same