Memorable British Quotes

82 result(s) for British Quotes.
"Keep buggering on."
Winston Churchill
"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better."
Mae West
"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers."
John F. Kennedy
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
Winston Churchill
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
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"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."
Rosa Luxemburg
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
Oscar Wilde
"There is nothing permanent except change."
Heraclitus
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Winston Churchill
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
Winston Churchill
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
William Shakespeare
"The Eyes of the World Are Upon You."
Winston Churchill
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John F. Kennedy
"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."
Patrick Henry
"It is better to travel well than to arrive."
Buddha
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Winston Churchill
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Winston Churchill
"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."
Winston Churchill
"I am easily satisfied with the very best."
Winston Churchill
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
Winston Churchill
"The best proof of love is trust."
Joyce Brothers
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Charles Spurgeon
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players."
William Shakespeare
"The Old Vic is my university."
Laurence Olivier
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
George Bernard Shaw
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
L.P. Hartley
"A week is a long time in politics."
Harold Wilson
"When I want goodenheim, I buy it myself."
Coco Chanel
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire (often attributed to, regarding Evelyn Beatrice Hall's
"I'm just mad about saffron. Saffron's a spice. You can't be mad about saffron."
Spike Milligan
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Jane Austen
"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."
Andrew Jackson
"The English never draw a line without blurring it."
Cecil Rhodes
"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
George Bernard Shaw
"What is Tottenham's ground doing up there with the clouds?"
Bill Shankly
"The road to ruin is always brightly lighted."
Wilson Mizner
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
Oscar Wilde
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
Oscar Wilde
"There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting."
Mark Twain
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
Sun Tzu (often attributed to British culture through adaptation
"The best weapon is to get the enemy to believe that he will gain more by not fighting."
Sun Tzu (often attributed to British culture through adaptation
"All that glitters is not gold."
William Shakespeare
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
William Shakespeare
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
William Shakespeare
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
Winston Churchill
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
John F. Kennedy (often quoted in British contexts)
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won."
Mahatma Gandhi (often quoted in British contexts)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein (often quoted in British contexts)
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."
Benjamin Franklin (often quoted in British contexts)
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
Lao Tzu (often quoted in British contexts)
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
Emily Dickinson (often quoted in British contexts)
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (often quoted in British contexts)
"Not all those who wander are lost."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
J.K. Rowling
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
Maya Angelou (often quoted in British contexts)
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Buddha (often quoted in British contexts)
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller (often quoted in British contexts)
"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley."
Robert Burns (Scottish, but heavily influential in British lite
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
Samuel Johnson
"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
William Shakespeare
"The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven."
William Shakespeare
"The English instinctively admire any man who sells his life dearly."
George Orwell
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau (American, but resonated strongly within Br
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
George Bernard Shaw
"My kingdom for a horse!"
William Shakespeare
"The game is afoot."
Arthur Conan Doyle
"Elementary, my dear Watson."
Arthur Conan Doyle (Though the exact phrasing is debated, the s
"There is, I know not how, something in the Woodlands that breathes the spirit of that old and chivalrous Forest-life of Merry England."
Walter Scott
"He who hesitates is lost."
Joseph Addison
"A primrose by the river's brim, a yellow primrose was to him, and it was nothing more."
William Wordsworth
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