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Famous British Quotes
'A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.'.. Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.'.. Arthur Ransome
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Good order is the foundation of all things.'.. Edmund Burke
'Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel certain that they mean something else'.. Oscar Wilde
'To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I want to be all used up when I die.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.'.. D H Lawrence
'An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.'.. Charles Darwin
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'No ghost was ever seen by two pairs of eyes.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.'.. Dennis Potter
'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'.. John Ruskin
'A dog is for life and not just for christmas so do be careful at the office party'.. Jimmy Carr
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'.. Douglas Adams
'Ability is sexless'.. Christabel Pankhurst
'Those that vow the most are the least sincere.'.. Richard Sheridan
'I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.'.. John Ruskin
'Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious'.. George Orwell
'You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.'.. Neil Kinnock
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.'.. E M Forster
'People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.'.. Maggie Smith
'I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination'.. Judi Dench
'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.'.. Samuel Johnson