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Famous British Quotes
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'We dont know much about the human conscience except that its soluble in alcohol'.. Sir John Mortimer
'We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.'.. Jonathan Swift
'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.'.. George Orwell
'If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.'.. Douglas Adams
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters'.. Joseph Conrad
'A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Our true nationality is mankind.'.. H G Wells
'I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke
'Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead'.. Oscar Wilde
'If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.'.. Roger McGough
'Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings'.. Cary Grant
'Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.'.. Spike Milligan
'It is better to live rich than to die rich.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.'.. William Shakespeare
'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.'.. Edmund Burke
'Talking is the disease of age.'.. Ben Jonson
'Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese'.. GK Chesterton
'No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income'.. Wilkie Collins
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells
'I always tell a man not to use the word always'.. Robert Walpole