famous english quotations

Famous English QuotationsList of famous English quotations frompoliticians, authors, actors, scientists and philosophers.

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A"After all is said and done, more is said than done."Aesop

"Persuasion is often more effectual than force."Aesop

"United we stand, divided we fall."Aesop

"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."GracieAllen

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doinganything very innovative."WoodyAllen

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."WoodyAllen

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."WoodyAllen

"The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do."Anonymous

"Love is not about who you live with. It's about who you can't livewithout."Anonymous

"A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walksout"Anonymous

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on thedoorbell."Anonymous

"Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superiorwork."Anonymous

"Wit is educated insolence."Aristotle

"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."Aristotle

"One swallow does not make the spring."Aristotle

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do."Aristotle

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripeningfruit."Aristotle

"There is safety in numbers."Anonymous

B"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."Sir FrancisBacon

"Knowledge is power."Sir FrancisBacon

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."Sir FrancisBacon

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."Honore deBalzac

"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up andtaking action."Honore deBalzac

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."Orlando A.Battisa

"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.CharlesBaudelaire

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."Alexander GrahamBell

"Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory."IngridBergman

"Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.Otto vonBismarck

"Ability is nothing without opportunity."NapoleonBonaparte

"Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever."NapoleonBonaparte

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."NapoleonBonaparte

"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."JacquesBossuet

"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English.It means they know another language.H. JacksonBrown, Jr.


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C"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."Miguel deCervantes

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to meritthe face you have at fifty."CocoChanel

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."CocoChanel

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."G.K.Chesterton

"A woman used her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."G.K.Chesterton

"I married an archaeologist because the older I grow the more heappreciates me."AgathaChristie

"Very few of us are what we seem."AgathaChristie

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."WinstonChurchill

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist seesthe opportunity in every difficulty."WinstonChurchill

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss ofenthusiasm."WinstonChurchill

"If you are going through hell, keep going."WinstonChurchill

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."WinstonChurchill

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to getits pants on."WinstonChurchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility."WinstonChurchill

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."WinstonChurchill

"You have enemies? Good.That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."WinstonChurchill

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."Cicero

"Progress is the injustice each generation commitswith regard to itspredecessors."E.M.Cioran

"I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those youdislike?"JeanCocteau

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.Conficius

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."Conficius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."Conficius

"Respect yourself and others will respect you."Conficius

"The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct."Conficius

"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood."MarieCurie

D"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."SalvadorDali

"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it."SalvadorDali

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change."CharlesDarwin

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."MarleneDietrich

"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."BenjaminDisraeli

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches,but reveal to him his own."BenjaminDisraeli

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."BenjaminDisraeli

"Little things affect little minds."BenjaminDisraeli

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."BenjaminDisraeli

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."BenjaminDisraeli

"Success is the child of audacity."BenjaminDisraeli

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together; at the door where thelatter enters, the former makes its exit.AlexandreDumas

"All for one and one for all."AlexandreDumas


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E"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."ThomasEdison

You dont really understand something unless you can explain it toyour grandmother.AlbertEinstein

"Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, andI'm not sure about the former."AlbertEinstein

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything thatcounts can be counted."AlbertEinstein

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has itslimits."AlbertEinstein

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."AlbertEinstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."AlbertEinstein

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."AlbertEinstein

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb atree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."AlbertEinstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocreminds."AlbertEinstein

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."AlbertEinstein

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."AlbertEinstein

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."AlbertEinstein

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."AlbertEinstein

"When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second.When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour.That's relativity."AlbertEinstein

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to playbetter than anyone else."AlbertEinstein

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."Ralph WaldoEmerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."Ralph WaldoEmerson

"In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the otherside."Euripedes

"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife."Euripedes

F"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth, and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction."WilliamFaulkner

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business."HenryFord

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."HenryFord

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyesoff your goal."HenryFord

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."HenryFord

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a livingat doing what they most enjoy."MalcolmForbes

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; notonly plan but also believe."AnatoleFrance

"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."BenjaminFranklin

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.BenjaminFranklin

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."BenjaminFranklin

"Most fools think they are only ignorant."BenjaminFranklin

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."BenjaminFranklin

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of badtraining."AnnaFreud

"Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral that theycan imagine."SigmundFreud


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G"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover itwithin themselves."GalileoGallilei

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."MahatmaGandhi

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it meansgetting along with people."MahatmaGandhi

There is enough on earth for everybodys need, but not for everyonesgreed.MahatmaGandhi

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."MahatmaGandhi

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever."MahatmaGandhi

"Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."BillGates

"Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence."Charles deGaulle

"Graveyards are full of indispensable men."Charles deGaulle

"Formula for success : rise early, work hard, strike oil."J. PaulGetty

"Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children"J. PaulGetty

"If you can actually count your money then you are not a rich man."J. PaulGetty

"All the world over I will back the masses against the classes."WilliamGladstone

"Enjoy when you can and endure when you must."J.W. vanGoethe

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do."J.W. vanGoethe

"Whatever you can do or dream, begin it."J.W. vanGoethe

"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."J.W. vanGoethe

"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."J.W. vanGoethe

H"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can doand succeed at."StephenHawking

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."Stephen Hawking

"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."Stephen Hawking

"Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it."StephenHawking

"Never confuse movement with action."ErnestHemmingway

"There is no better friend than a book."ErnestHemmingway

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."AlfredHitchcock

"Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow."Horace

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."VictorHugo

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."VictorHugo

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."VictorHugo

"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is theservant."VictorHugo

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does withwhat happens to him."AldousHuxley

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."AldousHuxley

J"In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, standlike a rock."ThomasJefferson

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."Steve Jobs

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that'swhat matters to me."Steve Jobs

"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."SamuelJohnson

"Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."SamuelJohnson

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge withoutintegrity is dangerous and dreadful.SamuelJohnson

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."SamuelJohnson

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do himabsolutely no good."SamuelJohnson

"When making your choices in life, do not forget to live."SamuelJohnson


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K"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."ImmanuelKant

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or thepresent are certain to miss the future.John F.Kennedy

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."John F.Kennedy

"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of twocharacters. One represents danger, the other represents opportunity."John F.Kennedy

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."John F.Kennedy

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty isalways in vain."John F.Kennedy

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why...I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"RobertKennedy

"More business is lost every year through neglect than through anyother cause."Rose Kennedy

"Education : the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferentby the incompetent.John MaynardKeynes

"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but thesilence of our friends."Martin LutherKing

"The time is always right to do what is right."Martin LutherKing

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boatnow."Martin LutherKing

"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."RudyardKipling

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."RudyardKipling

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."RudyardKipling

"He travels the fastest who travels alone."RudyardKipling

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously."HenryKissinger

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people theythink it's their fault."HenryKissinger

L"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survivewithout human affection."DalaiLama

"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."JohnLennon

"In the end it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in youryears."AbrahamLincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man'scharacter, give him power."AbrahamLincoln

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."AbrahamLincoln

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the peopleall of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."AbrahamLincoln

M"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from theenemy until it is ripe for execution."NiccoloMachiavelli

"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."SomersetMaugham

"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late."SomersetMaugham

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."Moliere

"To the soul there is hardly anything more healing than friendship."ThomasMoore


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N"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."IsaacNewton

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times thesame good things for the first time."FriedrichNietzsche

"What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."FriedrichNietzsche

"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."FriedrichNietzsche

"We don't see things as they are; wesee things as we are."AnaisNin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."AnaisNin

O"Burdens become light when cheerfully borne."Ovid

P"In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind."LouisPasteur

"Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit."WilliamPenn

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."WilliamPenn

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."PabloPicasso

"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste."PabloPicasso

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."Plutarch

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."AlexanderPope

"The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in havingnew eyes."MarcelProust

R"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror."FrancoisRabelais

"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."Thomas BrackettReed

"The customer is never wrong."CesarRitz

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life."F.W.Robertson

"Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away."F. de laRochefoucauld

"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."F. de laRochefoucauld

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."EleanorRoosevelt

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."Franklin D.Roosevelt

"Rules are not necessarily sacred; principles are."Franklin D.Roosevelt

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."Franklin D.Roosevelt

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."TheodoreRoosevelt

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never doesanything."TheodoreRoosevelt

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."TheodoreRoosevelt

"If it can't be cured it must be endured."SalmanRushdie

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."JohnRuskin


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S"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, butwhen there is nothing left to take away."Antoine deSt Exupery

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each otherbut in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine deSt Exupery

"Hell is other people."Jean-PaulSartre

"It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create."JohnSaxe

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."Sir WalterScott

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."Lucius AnnaeusSeneca

"Life is a play. It's not its length but its performance that counts."Lucius AnnaeusSeneca

"Action is eloquence."WilliamShakespeare

"All that glitters is not gold."WilliamShakespeare

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."WilliamShakespeare

"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners."WilliamShakespeare

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."WilliamShakespeare

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on thesupport of Paul."George BernardShaw

"Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by acommon language."George BernardShaw

"The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty."George BernardShaw

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!"George BernardShaw

"Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famouswithout ability."George BernardShaw

"We don't stop playing because we grow; we grow old because westop playing."George BernardShaw

"Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adaptthe world to themselves. That's why all progress depends onunreasonable men."George BernardShaw

"Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?"Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seedsyou plant!"Robert LouisStevenson

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation isthought necessary."Robert LouisStevenson

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.JonathanSwift

"May you live every day of your life."JonathanSwift

T"I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion, than byan army of a hundred lions led by a sheep."Talleyrand

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."Alfred LordTennyson

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."WilliamThackery

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done,ask a woman."MargaretThatcher

"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money forits own sake."MargaretThatcher

"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."MargaretThatcher

"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."MargaretThatcher

"Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another."LeoTolstoy

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."Mark Twain

"Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint."MarkTwain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes younothing. It was here first."MarkTwain

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are afool than to open it and remove all doubt."MarkTwain

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."MarkTwain


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U"The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure."Unknown

"The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack."Unknown

"Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it."Unknown

"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."Unknown

"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."Unknown

"The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking whatone does."Unknown

"Only those who keep trying eventually win."Unknown

"Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something doneright is an achievement."Unknown

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."Unknown

"The best time to do something worthwhile is between yesterday andtomorrow."Unknown

V"Conscience is a man's compass."VinventVan Gogh

"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not as rapid as that of man toerror."Voltaire

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."Voltaire

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."Voltaire

"The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks."Voltaire

"Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one."Voltaire

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."Voltaire

"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too."Voltaire

W"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to get rid of it."OscarWilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."OscarWilde

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."OscarWilde

"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."OscarWilde

"Wisdom is knowing how little we know."OscarWilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all."OscarWilde

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, theyoung know everything."OscarWilde

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."OscarWilde

"There are only two tragedies in life : one is not getting what one wants,the other is getting it."OscarWilde

"True friends stab you in the front."OscarWilde

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it everysix months."OscarWilde

"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."TennesseeWilliams

Y"Education is not the filling of a pail but rather the lighting of a fire."William ButlerYeats

"There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met."William ButlerYeats

Z"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."EmileZola

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