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Famous British Quotes
'The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations'.. Adam Smith
'Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.'.. Lord North
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'I have a face like the behind of an elephant.'.. Charles Laughton
'Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac'.. Ronnie Corbett
'There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.'.. David Lloyd George
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them'.. Clement Attlee
'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'.. Joe Orton
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.'.. Rupert Brooke
'Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country...naturally divides itself into three parts; the rent of the land, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock'.. Adam Smith
'Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.''.. Paul McCartney
'Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.'.. William Shakespeare
'I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.'.. Douglas Adams
'Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.'.. Bertrand Russell
'You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.'.. Winston Churchill
'The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.'.. GK Chesterton
'Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.'.. Oliver Goldsmith
''Not many sounds in life exceed in interest an unexpected knock at the door''.. Charles Lamb
'Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!'.. Charles Dickens
'Motion is tranquility.'.. Stirling Moss
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'It's an honor to be on the same network that gave us 'The Sopranos,' ... They made me an offer I couldn't refuse.'.. Ricky Gervais
'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell