Quotes Episode 2: Return of the Brits

“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.” Jane Austen

“A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.” Edmund Burke

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” Winston Churchill

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” Edmund Burke

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.” Winston Churchill

“Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.” Elizabeth Gaskell

“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.” Charles Dickens

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” Jane Austen

“Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.” James M. Barrie

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen

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

“A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.” Charles Dickens

“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.” Edmund Burke

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

“Nobody minds having what is too good for them.” Jane Austen

“If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.” Winston Churchill

“There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.” Jane Austen

“Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.” James M. Barrie

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” A. A. Milne

“We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.” Jane Austen

“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.” James M. Barrie

“Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.” Horatio Nelson

“Minerva House... was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.” Charles Dickens

“Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.” Edmund Burke

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” Edmund Burke