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Famous British Quotes
'Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.'.. William Shakespeare
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun'.. Noel Coward
'Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.'.. Edmund Burke
'Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.'.. Jonathan Swift
'A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.'.. Vanessa Redgrave
'Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Diplomacy, is the art of letting somebody else have your way.'.. David Frost
'Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more'.. Roald Dahl
'I am not conceited. It is just that I have a fondness for the good things in life and I happen to be one of them'.. Kenneth Williams
'Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power'.. Michael Foot
'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt'.. Vita Sackville-West
'Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.'.. Edmund Burke
'Man is only great when he acts from passion.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between'.. Oscar Wilde
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.'.. Lord Byron
'He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!'.. Robert Browning
'If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs'.. Milton Jones
'Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.'.. Charles Dickens
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'.. Joshua Reynolds
'Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.'.. Daphne du Maurier
'My reputation grows with every failure.'.. George Bernard Shaw