Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."
That evening I was the sole guest in the huge dining room, and it was the same startled person who took my order and shortly afterwards brought me a fish that had doubtless lain entombed in the deep-freeze for years. The breadcrumb armour-plating of the...
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W. G. Sebold
I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying...
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Bill Bryson
First of all, you must never speak of anything by its name -- in that country. So, if you see a tree on a mountain, it will be better to say 'Look at the green on the high'; for that's how they talk -- in...
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Aleister Crowley
If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)
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Winston S. Churchill
More Quotes By Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
