Quotes by english authors

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. A. A. Milne

You Better Will Say Instead Advised Watch

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. A. A. Milne

Good Spelling Wrong Wobbly Get Places Letters

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. A. E. Housman

Good Great Perception Mellow Though Must Great Literature Some Sharpen Reader Opinions His Dull Discrimination Personal Blunt Literature Should

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Alan Watts

World Try Myth Sense Terms Make Which Image

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. Alan Watts

Not Knowing Omnipotence Everything Knowing How Doing Done Just

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. Alan Watts

Me Negative Power Nothing Exceedingly Powerful Empty

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Aldous Huxley

Somebody Else Name Author Same Either Iliad Homer

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Aldous Huxley

God Knowledge Sacrifice Only Make Effectively Room

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. Aleister Crowley

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. Alexander Pope

Patriotism Ambition Destroy Knave Make Makes Same Patriot Save

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. Alexander Pope

Dance Those Easiest Move Who

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. Alexander Pope

Honor Lies Rise Shame Part Well Condition Act Your

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. Alexander Pope

God Clouds Mind Wind Indian Sees Him Hears Poor Whose

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock

Wake Up Pleasure Give Wake Up Same Them Nightmare

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. Alfred Hitchcock

Television About Well Spreading Contributing Done Psychiatry Information Much Need

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Alfred North Whitehead

Me Selfish Looking Would Would-Be Boss Billionaire

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. Amy Winehouse

Life Time Age People Drinking Thinking Spend About Ten Ten Years Most Years Lot Five Going Just Justification Next

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. Anita Roddick

You Better First Daring Be Different Well Just Different Them Things

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. Anita Roddick

You Mosquito Try Think Too Impact Small Bed Going

Everyone should get sacked at least once. It forces you to look at yourself... It is important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life. Perfection doesn't exist. Anna Wintour

Life You Reality Yourself Important Everyone Once Sacked Perfection Look Forces Because Least Exist Get Should Setbacks

Every dogma has its day. Anthony Burgess

Funny Day Every Dogma

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. Arnold Bennett

Great Exactly Rut Advantage Knows Being Where Great Advantage