Famous Short British Quotes

#1. No human is completely fearless.

Wole Soyinka

#2. He looked like a Greek god. Jade's thoughts snapped from togas to white sheets to sex in the span of two seconds.

Alyssa Goodnight

#3. No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured.

Donald Kingsbury

#5. What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

Douglas Coupland

#6. Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

Vincent Van Gogh

#7. I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing.

Eric Bana

#8. The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

John Updike

#9. To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Hannah More

#10. Ignorance has produced less errors than science. P. 105

Mathias Aires

#11. I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions, such as the character of human existence and what makes for a good human life.

George Pattison