British Quotes

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.

And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.

Not every job is a good job.

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day.

I don't think Americans look bad in spandex.

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.

Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so.

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.