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Famous British Quotes
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'Difficulties are just things to overcome'.. Ernest Shackleton
'A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.'.. Peter Ustinov
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot
'The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing'.. Ronnie Barker
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.'.. W H Auden
'A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other'.. Samuel Johnson
'Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.'.. J M Barrie
'No man can lose what he never had.'.. Izaak Walton
'The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.'.. Oscar Wilde
'England expects that every man will do his duty.'.. Horatio Nelson
'All wealth is the product of labour.'.. John Locke
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde
'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde
'Better never than late.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'.. Oscar Wilde
'Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'The thing with Hi-Tech is that you always end up using scissors'.. David Hockney
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde
'I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.'.. Max Beerbohm
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them'.. George Orwell
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.'.. Virginia Woolf
'But love's a malady without a cure.'.. John Dryden
'Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.'.. Tommy Cooper
'The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.'.. Florence Nightingale
'A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.'.. Benjamin Disraeli