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Famous British Quotes
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.'.. William Morris
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?'.. Charles Dickens
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'Such as we are made of, such we be.'.. William Shakespeare
'I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it'.. Charles II
'Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction'.. William Blake
'The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on'.. Ronnie Barker
'Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair'.. William Blake
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.'.. Walter Scott
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'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
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.'.. Lord Kitchener
'I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on'.. Dudley Moore