Quotes by english authors

If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers. George Muller

God You Patience Soul Heart Wait Walk Will Believe Indeed Given Surely Lord Lord Jesus Answers Continue Prayers Salvation Patiently Regard Then Your Iniquity Jesus

We are immortal until our work on earth is done. George Whitefield

Work Our Earth Immortal Until Done

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' Gilbert K. Chesterton

Saying Patriotism Mother Desperate Country Drunk Think Would Case Except Wrong Like Patriot Sober Ever Right Thing

What really matters is what you do with what you have. H. G. Wells

You Matters Really

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. H. G. Wells

You Man World Will Though Rate Through Troubles He Cheerful Cheerfulness Sure Were Been End Behave Any Getting Hold While Justified Your Reasonable Chance

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. Herbert Read

Wind Bitter Knows Blowing Artist Sensitive

Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face. Hugh Grant

Face Example Nation Itself Shooting Fantastic Full Brexit

Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied. Imelda Staunton

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. J. K. Rowling

People World Defiance Meet Kind Very Often Damaged

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. J. R. R. Tolkien

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R. Tolkien

You Live Out Calculations Him Does Leave Your Near Dragon

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared. Jamie xx

Music Good Me Good Night Sense Way Shared Like Escapism Night

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings. Jane Goodall

Life You Dog Pet Animals Feelings Minds Cat Had Share Perfectly Know Well Done Cannot Personalities Your

I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships. Jane Green

Hardships Believe Our Backgrounds Make Interesting Flaws Us

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats

Wisdom You Wise Man Will Vain Definition Neither Vanity Give He Proud Proud Man Nor Cannot Who Filled

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. John Keats

Water Kick Top Would Temper Scarcely Come Am Were

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. John Keats

Art Every Disagreeable Making Intensity Capable Evaporate

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. John Lennon

Problem Law Nine-Tenths Possession

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

Knowledge Mind Reading Thinking Ours Only Read Makes Materials

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. John Lydon

Me Somebody Liars Lies Unbearable Like Just Really Tolerate