Favorite Celebrations United Kingdom Writers Wit and Wisdom of Churchill

"When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather." ~ Samuel Johnson

WRITERS- MEN
Lord Acton
Francis Bacon
J. M. Barrie
Samuel Beckett
Anthony Burgess
Lord Byron

Thomas Carlyle
Lewis Carroll
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Samuel Coleridge
William Congreve
Joseph Conrad

Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
John Donne
Arthur Conan Doyle
William Golding

Fred Hoyle
Leigh Hunt
Aldous Huxley
Samuel Johnson
James Joyce
John Keats
Ronald Knox
D. H. Lawrence
C.S. Lewis
John Locke

Thomas Babington Macaulay
W. Somerset Maugham
A.A. Milne

John Milton
Edward R. Murrow
George Orwell
Alexander Pope
John Ruskin

Saki
William Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
George Bernard Shaw
Philip Sidney

Philip Sydney

Robert Louis Stevenson
Jonathan Swift
Alfred Tennyson
William M. Thackeray
Dylan Thomas
J.R.R.Tolkien

Izaak Walton
H. G. Wells
Alfred North Whitehead
Oscar Wilde
William Butler Yeats

WRITERS- WOMEN
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Agatha Christie
George Eliot

George Eliot

Doris Lessing
Denise Levertov
Edith Nesbit
Beatrix Potter
Dorothy Sayers
Dodie Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
Virginia Woolf

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