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Famous British Quotes
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'.. D H Lawrence
'I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.'.. George Eliot
'One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade'.. Miranda Richardson
'I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job'.. Margaret Thatcher
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'Look back, and smile on perils past.'.. Walter Scott
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.'.. Oscar Wilde
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not'.. Jonathan Swift
'A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.'.. Ian Fleming
'A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something'.. Samuel Johnson
'An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'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
'The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it'.. John Ruskin
'I like to drink to suit my location.'.. Tom Jones
'I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite'.. GK Chesterton
'A few honest men are better than numbers.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.'.. John Milton
'I cant type but if I could I would rather play the Harpsichord'.. Peter Ustinov
'In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths'.. Graham Greene
'He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'.. Winston Churchill
'I'm a holy man minus the holiness.'.. E M Forster
'He who would search for pearls must dive below.'.. John Dryden