Quotes Episode 1: The British Menace

(I posted some of the Winston Churchill ones a long while back, but they are such good quotes...)

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” C. S. Lewis

“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.” Francis Bacon

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.” Charlotte Bronte

“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” C. S. Lewis

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.” Winston Churchill

“I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.” Francis Bacon

“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” C. S. Lewis

“I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.” J. R. R. Tolkien

“A joke is a very serious thing.” Winston Churchill

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” C. S. Lewis

“A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.” George III

“Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.” George III

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” C. S. Lewis

“Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.” Winston Churchill

“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.” Winston Churchill

“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.” Winston Churchill

“I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.” Winston Churchill

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Winston Churchill

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” C. S. Lewis

“I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.” Winston Churchill

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” Francis Bacon

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” Winston Churchill

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.” C. S. Lewis

“What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner
‘I stand for consensus’?” Margaret Thatcher

“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” C. S. Lewis

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” Winston Churchill

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"” C. S. Lewis

“The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.” Winston Churchill