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Famous British Quotes
'We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.'.. Sir Tom Stoppard
'The price of greatness is responsibility.'.. Winston Churchill
'The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.'.. Richard Burton
'The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.'.. Horace Walpole
'Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.'.. John Osborne
'I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.'.. Elizabeth I
'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.'.. Margaret Thatcher
'I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.'.. Victoria Wood
'Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.'.. Edmund Burke
'I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.'.. Isaac Newton
'If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia'.. Jerome K Jerome
'The one haunting and exasperatingly lovable city in Scotland'.. Lewis Gibbon
'The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable'.. John Milton
'That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Football wasn't meant to be run by linesmen and air traffic control.'.. Tommy Docherty
'Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed'.. Oscar Wilde
'Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.'.. Peter Ustinov
'It is not so much that the world has got so much worse but that news coverage has got so much better'.. GK Chesterton
'Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else'.. Hilaire Belloc
'A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.'.. Stanley Baldwin
'You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain'.. Stanley Baldwin
'Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody'.. Agatha Christie
'Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.'.. Winston Churchill
'Lack of money is the root of all evil.'.. George Bernard Shaw