British Quotes

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Have the courage of your desire.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.