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Famous British Quotes
'The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Every man over forty is a scoundrel.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'You had better have one King than five hundred'.. Charles II
'I have no intention of uttering my last words on stage. A couple of depraved young girls and room service will do me fine'.. Peter O’Toole
'The most romantic, if not the most beautiful, place in Scotland'.. Walter Scott
'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'.. William Wordsworth
'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country'.. Bertrand Russell
'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.'.. E M Forster
'Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.'.. John Milton
'Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.'.. Charles Lamb
'Its the menopause. I have got my own climate'.. Julie Walters
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'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
'My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.'.. Les Dawson
'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'.. J R R Tolkien
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'.. Roald Dahl
'Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.'.. John Locke
'He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master'.. Ben Jonson
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Civilisation is the distance man has put between himself and his excreta'.. Brian Aldiss
'Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli