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Famous British Quotes
'Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie'.. Peter Cook
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Be just before you are generous.'.. Richard Sheridan
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Every time you liberate a woman, you liberate a man'.. Emmeline Pankhurst
'Fear is the mother of foresight.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Love-making is an art which must be studied.'.. Ivor Novello
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'.. T S Eliot
'You want to be foretold the weather? it is bad enough when it comes without having the misery of knowing about it beforehand'.. Jerome K Jerome
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Faith is a passionate intuition.'.. William Wordsworth
'Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.'.. Charles Dickens
'Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect'.. Samuel Johnson
'We pay when old for the excesses of youth.'.. J B Priestley
'You may travel the world over but you will find nowhere more beautiful; It is so restful, so colourful and so unspoilt (Tenby)'.. Augustus John
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'All a poet can do today is warn.'.. Wilfred Owen
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.'.. Winston Churchill
'The cruelest lies are often told in silence.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde