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Famous British Quotes
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.'.. J K Rowling
'We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'A loving heart is the truest wisdom.'.. Charles Dickens
'A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free'.. Mary Shelley
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon'.. John Osborne
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.'.. John Ruskin
'The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does'.. William Blake
'In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny'.. John Stuart Mill
'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin
'Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.'.. Tony Benn
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'Elegance is inferior to virtue.'.. Mary Shelley
'You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change'.. John Cleese
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.'.. Kenneth Williams
'A good thing never ends.'.. Mick Jagger
'The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North