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Famous British Quotes
'Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.'.. David Frost
'Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.'.. Edmund Burke
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.'.. John Osborne
'Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.'.. J B Priestley
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'.. Joshua Reynolds
'We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.'.. Winston Churchill
'A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Friendship is Love without his wings'.. Lord Byron
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.'.. John Osborne
'Arrange whatever pieces come your way.'.. Virginia Woolf
'I could not live in a country so miserable as to possess no castles'.. John Ruskin
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'Glasgow - The beautifullest little city I have seen in Britain'.. Daniel Defoe
'When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.'.. Stephen Spender
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.'.. Jane Austen
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'The worlds second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore'.. Cecil Beaton
'I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.'.. Jonathan Swift