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Famous British Quotes
'I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind than a humorous resignation'.. Somerset Maugham
'If you give up drink and sex, you don't live longer. It just seems longer'.. Clement Freud
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of'.. Jane Austen
'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious'.. Oscar Wilde
'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'.. Margaret Thatcher
'All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.'.. Rudyard Kipling
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.'.. Ernest Bevin
'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.'.. H G Wells
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound'.. John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
'A precedent embalms a principle.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point'.. Michael Caine
'Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.'.. GK Chesterton
'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse'.. Charles Dickens
'All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.'.. Spike Milligan
'Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking
'Women are made to be loved, not understood.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I dont make predictions. I never have and I never will'.. Tony Blair
'No benevolent man ever lost altogether the fruits of his benevolence.'.. Adam Smith
'There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men'.. John Locke
'Writing is an antidote for loneliness.'.. Steven Berkoff
'All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.'.. W E Gladstone
'The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.'.. Benjamin Disraeli