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Famous British Quotes
'The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.'.. Robert Burns
'I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.'.. Douglas Bader
'I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.'.. Roger Daltrey
'Now is the age of anxiety.'.. W H Auden
'Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yoursel'.. John Gielgud
'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We forge the chains we wear in life.'.. Charles Dickens
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'In English villages you turn over a stone and never know what might creep out'.. Agatha Christie
'Thought is the parent of the deed.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.'.. David Hockney
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
''Hearty Homely loving Hertford''.. Charles Lamb
'I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.'.. Michael Faraday