After Shakespeare, the Most Quotable...?

Question

British writer?

Answer 1

With apologies to Dr. Johnson and Oscar Wilde--Alexander Pope.

Answer 2

Winston Churchill

A few of the many:


A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

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

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Answer 3

Oscar Wilde is quoted often. Possibly even on a par with Shakespeare. I would list a few of his quotes but I can't pick the best ones as there are so many... He was a seriously witty guy!

Answer 4

This man takes some beating.

Churchill's Speeches

Quotations

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sir_Winston_Churchill/

I say "great sovereign state" with design and emphasis,
for I reject the view that Britain and the Commonwealth
should now be relegated to a tame and minor role in the world.

Our past is the key to our future, which I firmly trust and believes, will be no less fertile and glorious.

Let no man underrate our energies, our potentialities and our abiding power for good.
Winston Churchill.

http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/Webmap.html

http://www.churchill-speeches.com/

http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/exhibitions/churchill/speeches.html

Search Results

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?search=Churchill%27s+famous+speeches&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ques&p=Churchill%27s+famous+speeches

Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 5

Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain
Ok, so they aren't British....but I am not British but I am American and these two men are quoted often.

Answer 6

Robert Burns...
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry

The American writer immortalized that line with the title of his book, "of Mice and Men"

Answer 7

John Keats:

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness ...."

"Some shape of beauty moves away the pall from our dark spirits."

Answer 8

My vote is for either Samuel Johnson or G.K. Chesterton. I get to vote twice, right?

Answer 9

Charles Dickens.....
It was the best of times....
It is a far far better thing I do....
Please Sir, I want more!
etc.