Top 100 Quotes

Top 100 Quotes  Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. —Dean Acheson, 1962  Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. —Lord Acton, 1887  Man is by nature a political animal. —Aristotle, 4th century BC  That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. —Neil Armstrong, 1969  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, 1813  Revenge is a kind of wild justice. —Francis Bacon, 1635  I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. —Irving Berlin, 1942  We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they. —Bernard of Chartres, 12th century  In the beginning was the Word. —Bible (St John's Gospel)  Politics is the art of the possible. —Otto von Bismarck, 1867  And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? —William Blake, 1804–10  C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre [It is magnificent, but it is not war]. —Pierre Bosquet, 1854  Reader, I married him. —Charlotte Brontë, 1847  No coward soul is mine. —Emily Brontë, 1846  If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. —Rupert Brooke, 1914

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 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850  Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? —Robert Browning, 1855  It's a great life if you don't weaken. —John Buchan, 1919  It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph —Edmund Burke (attributed, not found in his writings)  The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley. —Robert Burns, 1796  I awoke one morning and found myself famous. —Lord Byron, 1824  Veni, vidi, vici [I came, I saw, I conquered]. —Julius Caesar, 1st century BC  It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. —Mrs Patrick Campbell, 1940  The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. —Thomas Carlyle, 1838  The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today. —Lewis Carroll, 1872  After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. —Barbara Cartland, 1993  Delenda est Carthago [Carthage must be destroyed]. —Cato the Elder, 3rd century BC  Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. —Edith Cavell, 1915  Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. —Raymond Chandler, 1944  Let not poor Nelly starve. —Charles II, 1685  He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght. —Geoffrey Chaucer, 14th century  The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. —Lord Chesterfield, on sex

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 When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything. —G. K. Chesterton, 1936  I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. —Winston Churchill, 1940  The sinews of war: unlimited money. —Cicero, 1st century BC  War is nothing but the continuation of politics with the admixture of other means. —Karl von Clausewitz, 1832-4  In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816  Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast. —William Congreve, 1697  Mad dogs and Englishmen Go out in the midday sun. —Noël Coward, 1931  Variety's the very spice of life. —William Cowper, 1785  Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. —Stephen Decatur, 1816  Honey, I just forgot to duck. —Jack Dempsey, 1926, having lost the World Heavyweight title  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. —Charles Dickens, 1859  Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels. —Benjamin Disraeli, 1864  Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. —John Donne, 1624  'Excellent,' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he. —Arthur Conan Doyle; origin of the misquotation, 'Elementary, my dear Watson'.  Great wits are sure to madness near allied. —John Dryden, 1681  The times they are a-changin'. —Bob Dylan, 1964  Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. —Arthur Eddington, 1944 3

 Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety nine per cent perspiration. —Thomas Alva Edison, c.1903  E=mc². —Albert Einstein, 1905 (usual form of his statement)  April is the cruellest month. —T. S. Eliot, 1922  I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. —Elizabeth I, 1588  I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face. —Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 1940  There is no 'royal road' to geometry. —Euclid, 4th century BC  Never give a sucker an even break. —W. C. Fields, 1941  Shaken and not stirred. —Ian Fleming, 1958  Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. —Henry Ford, 1909  Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion. —E. M. Forster, 1910  All that matters is love and work. —Sigmund Freud, attributed  Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by. —Robert Frost, 1916  Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try. —Ira Gershwin, 1937  My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. —Edward Gibbon, 1796  Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon? —Duke of Gloucester, 1805  A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on. —Sam Goldwyn, 1974  Give me liberty, or give me death! —Patrick Henry, 1775

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 Clear your mind of cant. —Samuel Johnson, 1783  A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. —John Keats, 1818  Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. —John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961  I have a dream. —Martin Luther King, 1963  If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you. —Rudyard Kipling, 1910  Gentlemen prefer blondes. —Anita Loos, 1925  Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? —Christopher Marlowe, 1593  Fame is the spur. —John Milton, 1638  England expects that every man will do his duty. —Horatio Nelson, 1805  The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. —Blaise Pascal, 1670  Hope springs eternal in the human breast. —Alexander Pope, 1733  He would, wouldn't he? —Mandy Rice-Davies, 1963  The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933  O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive. —Sir Walter Scott, 1808  Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results —Ernest Shackleton, 1916  To be, or not to be: that is the question. —William Shakespeare, 1601  Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. —George Bernard Shaw, 1903  Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! —Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819 5

 Am I no a bonny fighter? —Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886  In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1842  The lady's not for turning. —Margaret Thatcher, 1980  All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, 1875-7.  Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. —Mark Twain, 1897 (popular version)  Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes [I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts]. —Virgil, 1st century BC  I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. —Voltaire (actually a later summary of his attitude rather than his own words)  Publish and be damned. —Duke of Wellington, c.1825  Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? —Mae West  To lose one parent...may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. —Oscar Wilde, 1895  A week is a long time in politics —Harold Wilson, c.1964  Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound. —P. G. Wodehouse, 1938  They think it's all over—it is now —Kenneth Wolstenhome, closing moments of World Cup Final, 1966.  A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. —Virginia Woolf, 1929  Earth has not anything to show more fair. —William Wordsworth, 1807  Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. —William Butler Yeats, 1899

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