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Famous British Quotes
'We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second'.. Horace Walpole
'Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.'.. Rupert Brooke
'The boughs that bear most hang lowest.'.. David Garrick
'Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.'.. Winston Churchill
'I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.'.. Sting
'My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.'.. W H Auden
'Time and tide wait for no man.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue'.. Stephen Fry
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'He was about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.'.. Rowan Atkinson
'Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.'.. John Lennon
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine'.. John Stuart Mill
'Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are'.. John Ruskin
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.'.. James G Ballard
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes'.. Douglas Adams
'Science is but an image of the truth.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'.. A A Gill
'Be not a slave of words.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'If we don't end war, war will end us.'.. H G Wells