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Famous British Quotes
'When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves'.. Mary Shelley
'Greenwich possesses the best air, the best prospect and the best conversation'.. Daniel Defoe
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness'.. Nick Hornby
'There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught'.. Oscar Wilde
'In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.'.. John Ruskin
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.'.. Ridley Scott
'A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know'.. Lord Byron
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'People always make war when they say they love peace.'.. D H Lawrence
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Knowledge is power.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'We are a small country with a large sense of its own importance'.. David Walliams
'Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'.. David Lloyd George
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'May you live every day of your life.'.. Jonathan Swift
'If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.'.. Charles Darwin
'Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.'.. Stephen Spender
'I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away'.. Derek Jarman
'When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.'.. Walter Scott