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Famous British Quotes
'Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.'.. Samuel Johnson
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it'.. W S Gilbert
'The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward'.. John Maynard Keynes
'Big Brother is watching you.'.. George Orwell
'A nation trying to tax itself to prosperity is rather like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle'.. Winston Churchill
'Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.'.. Spike Milligan
'Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it'.. George Orwell
'God never made His work for man to mend.'.. John Dryden
'Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.'.. Charles Lamb
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.'.. D H Lawrence
'Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.'.. Richard Burton
'I do not live in the world of sobriety.'.. Oliver Reed
'The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before'.. GK Chesterton
'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy'.. George Orwell
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.'.. Oscar Wilde
'All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.'.. Charles Kingsley
'Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself'.. Philip Larkin
'There is no sin but ignorance.'.. Christopher Marlowe
'Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.'.. Virginia Woolf
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.'.. Arthur Conan Doyle
'I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.'.. W G Grace
'The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Architecture aims at Eternity.'.. Christopher Wren
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden