Quotes by english authors

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love Friendship Love Is Flower Tree Like Sheltering

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. W. H. Auden

Addiction Addictive Tend Point Terminal Sins

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. William Cowper

Selfish Guilt Shame Principles Glory Built

Now is the winter of our discontent. William Shakespeare

Winter Our Discontent Now

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. William Shakespeare

Fall Virtue Some Rise Sin

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton

Integrity Vision Will Daring Be Different Purpose Impractical Different Anything Ordinary Against Commonplace Assert Creatures Slaves Imaginative

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Francis Bacon

Best Picture Beauty Best Part Part Which Express

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man Convictions Tolerance Virtue Without

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another. John Clayton

Thankful God Time Thanksgiving Appreciation World Giving Blessed Christian System See Emphasis Another How Gets Just Being Expressing Buying

Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn. John Wesley

You People Will Fire See Catch Come Burn Miles

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer. John Wesley

God Prayer Nothing Response Except Does Believing

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. Samuel Johnson

Men Bachelors Married Married Men Wives

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot

Life You People Say Pleasure People Say Greatest Doing Greatest Pleasure Cannot

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! William Shakespeare

Tooth Sharper How Than Child Thankless Serpent

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. Bernard Williams

World Face Licking Puppy Like Psychiatrist Your

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Isaac Newton

Truth My Friend Aristotle Greatest Friend Plato

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet. Jane Goodall

Time Good You Garden Plants Crime Few Sense Down Our Spend Torture Some Rate Area Recover Outside Studies Development Suppose Understands Proven Been Begin Green Goes Quite Anybody Psychological Which Victims Them Really Deep Flowers Need

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. John Churton Collins

Adversity Prosperity Our Know Friends Us

The discipline of desire is the background of character. John Locke

Character Discipline Background Desire

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

Man Fight Better Safety Made Men Free Miserable Important Own Nothing Unless Willing No Chance More He Himself His Than Personal Being Which Who Creature Chance Kept