English Quotes

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Music tells no truths.

Imagination is the air of mind.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.