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Famous British Quotes
'Conventionality is not morality.'.. Charlotte Bronte
'Some folk want their luck buttered'.. Thomas Hardy
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Women are for bastmen, beer is for bowlers. God help the all-rounders!'.. Fred Trueman
'He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.'.. William Shakespeare
'Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.'.. E M Forster
'Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache'.. Morrissey
'A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction'.. John Stuart Mill
'There is no instinct like that of the heart.'.. Lord Byron
'I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.'.. Tommy Cooper
'Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?'.. Virginia Woolf
'The more I see the less I know for sure.'.. John Lennon
'Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.'.. Winston Churchill
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.'.. Dylan Thomas
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober'.. Kenneth Tynan
'I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.'.. Jonathan Swift
'I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars'.. Michael Caine
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation'.. Malcolm Muggeridge
'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.'.. Winston Churchill