Quotes by english authors

Love is the flower you've got to let grow. John Lennon

Love You Love Is Flower Got Grow

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine

Oppression Enemy Liberty Will Own Duty Guard Secure Must Would He Reach Make Himself His Precedent Even Violates

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Robert Browning

Love Motherhood Begins Ends

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. William Penn

Jealous Others Torment Troublesome Themselves

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. William Shakespeare

God You Yourself Face Given Make Another

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley

Good You People Long Ways Times Places Means Ever

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great Small Things Great Things Valley Only Sees Small Peak Things

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling

Best Trouble Believe Saves Everybody Always Prefer Much

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. William Shakespeare

Time Man Women World Men Men And Women Stage Seven One-Man Entrance Merely Parts His Being Ages Many Acts Players Plays

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom Knowledge Lingers

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking

Space Universe Minor Something Advanced Makes Understand Very Just Average Us Planet Breed Special Star Monkeys

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl. Benjamin Jowett

Motivational Never Never Explain Retreat Howl Get Done Explain Them

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine

Motivational Conflict Glorious Triumph More Harder

Ring out the false, ring in the true. Alfred Lord Tennyson

New Year's Out Ring True False

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. William Blake

Wrath Horses Wiser Instruction Tigers Than

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Soul Meets Lips Lovers

Time and tide wait for no man. Geoffrey Chaucer

Time Man Wait Tide

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Strength Heart Pure Ten Because

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. William Shakespeare

Fool Better Foolish Wit Witty Than

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Stephen Hawking

Stupidity Looking Greed Increasingly Our Danger We Cannot Destroying Ourselves Small Remain Overcrowded Polluted Cannot Planet

The true art of memory is the art of attention. Samuel Johnson

Art Memory True Attention True Art

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Aldous Huxley

Perception Doors Unknown Between Known The Doors In-Between Things

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. Stephen Hawking

Future Past Indefinite Possibilities Only Like Exists Spectrum