Memorable Quotations: English Writers of the Past

The purpose of this book, which is arranged alphabetically by authors, is to present useful quotations from great English writers of the past. The compilation features words of wisdom, insight, and wit from poets, letter writers, playwrights, editors, translators, historians, philosophers, novelists, humorists, critics, journalists, speechwriters, diarists, satirists, and essayists, including Lord Acton, Joseph Addison, Margery Allingham, Jane Anger, Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, Francis Bacon, Walter Bagehot, Margaret Fairless Barber, Sir Max Beerbohm, Aphra Behn, Hilaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, Jeremy Bentham, William Blake, Henry St. John Bolingbroke, Viscount, George Borrow, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, F. H. Bradley, Nicholas Breton, Vera Brittain, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Sir Thomas Browne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Bunyan, Anthony Burgess, Fanny Burney, Robert Burton, Samuel Butler, Henry J. Byron, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, Susannah Centlivre, George Chapman, Lord Chesterfield, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Sir Winston Churchill, Colley Cibber, Arthur Hugh Clough, William Cobbett, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, C. C. Colton, William Congreve, Cyril Connolly, Joseph Conrad, Eliza Cook, Lady Diana Cooper, Noël Coward, Mandell Creighton, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, John Donne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Dryden, Lawrence Durrell, George Eliot, Sarah Ellis, Lady Ann Fanshawe, Henry Fielding, John Florio, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Elizabeth Gaskell, John Gay, Edward Gibbon, George Gissing, Pamela Glenconner, William Golding, Clarissa Graves, Robert Graves, Thomas Gray, Graham Greene, Lord George Savile Halifax, Thomas Hardy, Jane Harrison, William Hazlitt, Thomas Hobbes, Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins), Aldous Huxley, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Ben Jonson, John Keats, Arthur Koestler, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, D. H. Lawrence, Caroline Lejeune, C. S. Lewis, John Locke, John Lyly, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Bathsua Makin, Katherine Mansfield, Harriet Martineau, John Masefield, W. Somerset Maugham, George Meredith, Alice Meynell, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, C.. E. Montague, Hannah More, Lord John Morley, William Morris, Dorothy Nevill, Florence Nightingale, Margaret Oliphant, Baroness Orczy, George Orwell, John Osborne, Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), Thomas Love Peacock, Katherine Fowler Philips, Hester Piozzi, Alexander Pope, W. Winwood Reade, John Ruskin, Dora Russell, Elizabeth Russell, Margaret Sackville, Vita Sackville-West, Dorothy L. Sayers, William Shakespeare, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dame Edith Sitwell, Sydney Smith, Herbert Spencer, Freya Stark, Sir Richard Steele, Laurence Sterne, Sir Henry Taylor, Jeremy Taylor, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Traherne, Anthony Trollope, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Evelyn Waugh, Beatrice Potter Webb, Mary Webb, John Webster, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ellen Wood, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, Sir Henry Wotton, William Wycherley, Edward Young, and Israel Zangwill.