Anglican Priest

"When the British Empire finally sinks beneath the waves of history, it will leave behind it only two memorials: one is the game of Association Football and the other is the expression 'Fuck Off'."

Isaac Taylor

Literature

1829–1901

"The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil."

🇬🇧William Ralph Inge

Religion

1860–1954

"The fruit of the tree of knowledge, always drives man from some paradise or other."

Thomas Robert Malthus

Politics

1766–1834

"A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one."

🇩🇪George Berkeley

Philosophy

Empiricism

1685–1753

"Abstract terms should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves."

🇬🇧John Stott

Religion

1921–2011

"Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love."

🇬🇧Jonathan Swift

Literature

1943–2010

"It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first."

🇬🇧Richard Harris Barham

Literature

1788–1845

"He smiled and said, 'Sir, does your mother know that you are out?'"

Mandell Creighton

Religion

1843–1901

"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."

John Donne

Military

1572–1631

"Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all."

"The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said."

🇬🇧William Laud

Religion

1573–1645

"I had a serious offer made me again to be a Cardinal. ... But my answer again was, that something dwelt within me which would not suffer that, till Rome were other than it is."

🇬🇧Andrew Linzey

Religion

b. 1952

"God's nature is love, and since God loves creation, it follows that what is genuinely given and purposed by that love must acquire some right in relation to the Creator."

"A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation."

🇬🇧Robinson Duckworth

Religion

1834–1911

"I rowed stroke and he rowed bow in the famous Long Vacation voyage to Godstow, when the three Miss Liddells were our passengers, and the story was actually composed and spoken over my shoulder."

🇬🇧Rowan Williams

Religion

b. 1950

"We have only one global hegemonic power. It is not accumulating territory: it is trying to accumulate influence and control."

🇬🇧John Polkinghorne

Science

1930–2021

"God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show."

John Tillotson

Literature

1630–1694

"Bibliographic directory at Project Canterbury"

🇬🇧Lancelot Andrewes

Religion

1555–1626

"A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in."

Richard Chenevix Trench

Religion

1807–1886

"It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom."

🇬🇧Samuel Wilberforce

Religion

1805–1873

"Modern liberalism: a heartless steam engine."

Sabine Baring-Gould

Religion

1834–1924

"Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, by Sabine Baring-Gould"

🇺🇸John Henry Hobart

Religion

1775–1830

"My banner is Evangelical Truth, Apostolic Order."

Richard Whately

Religion

1787–1863

"Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword."

🇺🇸Alan Watts

Philosophy

Eastern philosophy

1915–1973

"This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."

🇬🇧John Henry Newman

Religion

1801–1890

"Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant."