Quotes by english authors

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. Charles Dickens

World Action

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens

Money Will Those Purchase Rarely Civility None Which Who Extended

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. Charles Kingsley

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. Christopher Fry

Funny More Only Clean Halo After Keep Thing

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. D. H. Lawrence

Garden Wolf Morality Hyena Always Real End Street Gate

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. David Bailey

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am. David Bowie

Me Age Heroes Older Guys Bother Weighs Am Were Years Left Than Lack Heavier Far Many Older Guys

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people. David Bowie

Me People Perspective Tend Write Take Drives Leads Look Most Malevolent Curiosity Different Little Different Perspective Things Need

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. David Bowie

Great Fear Worldview Abandonment Isolation Those Kind Guys Deal Terror

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings. David Bowie

Art Me Change Seriously Own Way Only Mornings Feel Always Been Stable The Only Thing Wanted Use Nourishment Ever Thing

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds. David Crystal

Best You Cake Old Language Sense Doors Society Preserves Worlds Jobs Eat Both Both Worlds New Opens Identity The Doors Your Languages Who Keep Lets Two

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. David Whyte

Honesty Honesty Is Humiliation Admitting Humility Indeed Exactly Powerless Where Grounded

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance. Douglas Feaver

Mouth Entrance Head His Export

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Sad Own Our Sole Tell Triumphs Crowds Sorrows Hearts

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love Soul My Soul Reach Breadth Thee Height Depth

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. Emmeline Pankhurst

Politics History Mother First Patient Baby Other Everybody Cries Kicks Indefinitely Unpleasant Impatient Fed Attended Feed Perfectly Know Until Well Makes Ready Waits Which Whole

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important. Felicity Kendal

Me Together Important Sense Humour Laugh Able Very Being Compatibility