British quotes

Explore famous quotes by British authors, politicians, and personalities on this diverse collection of iconic words from across the UK.

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn...

- T. E. Lawrence

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

- Winston Churchill

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

- Winston Churchill

Life is more fun if you play games.

- Roald Dahl

If you are good, life is good.

- Roald Dahl

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

- Roald Dahl

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

- Roald Dahl

There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met...

- Roald Dahl

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

- Roald Dahl

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

- Roald Dahl

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

- Roald Dahl

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

- Roald Dahl

A little magic can take you a long way.

- Roald Dahl

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

- Winston Churchill

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

- Winston Churchill

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

- Winston Churchill

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

- Winston Churchill

Doubts can be swept away only by deeds.

- Winston Churchill

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

- Winston Churchill

Dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

- Winston Churchill

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

- Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop.

- Winston Churchill

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

- Winston Churchill

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.

- Winston Churchill

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

- Winston Churchill

An old battle-axe of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

- Winston Churchill

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

- Winston Churchill

A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.

- Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

- Winston Churchill

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

- Winston Churchill