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Famous British Quotes
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.'.. Charles I
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The problem with committing political suicide is that you may live to regret it'.. Winston Churchill
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'Eating words has never given me indigestion.'.. Winston Churchill
'Every dog must have his day.'.. Jonathan Swift
'No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.'.. William Blake
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are'.. Quentin Crisp
'I can take any amount of criticism as long as its unqualifed praise'.. Noel Coward
'There but for the grace of God goes God'.. Winston Churchill
'He would make a lovely corpse.'.. Charles Dickens
'There are some men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.'.. Samuel Johnson
'All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.'.. GK Chesterton
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.'.. David Lloyd George
'Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.'.. Oliver Reed
'Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.'.. John Major
'I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say'.. Margaret Thatcher
'The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.'.. Winston Churchill
'Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.'.. William Pitt (The Younger)
'Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy'.. Martin Amis
'Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.'.. John Dryden