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Famous British Quotes
'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.'.. Oscar Wilde
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'Several excuses are always less convincing than one.'.. Aldous Huxley
'Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.'.. David Garrick
'Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.'.. Diana Spencer
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.'.. Virginia Woolf
'Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain'.. Alan Bleasdale
'To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal'.. Peter Ustinov
'To wait idly is the worst of conditions.'.. Robert Falcon Scott
'Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows'.. Siegfried Sassoon
'In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press'.. Oscar Wilde
'Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.'.. Dante G Rossetti
'Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.'.. J B Priestley
'A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white'.. William Blake
'He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade'.. Samuel Johnson
'Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The poetry of the earth is never dead.'.. John Keats
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.'.. Joseph Conrad
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.'.. Charlotte Bronte