British Quotes

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.