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Famous British Quotes
'Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.'.. John Ruskin
'Wonders will never cease.'.. David Garrick
'You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'I like Beethoven, especially the poems.'.. Ringo Starr
'The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander'.. T E Lawrence
'Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.'.. Lord Byron
'Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.'.. W H Auden
'They say eyes clear with age.'.. Philip Larkin
'I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.'.. John Betjeman
'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others'.. George Orwell
'Diligence is the mother of good fortune.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.'.. Jonathan Ross
'All heiresses are beautiful.'.. John Dryden
'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded'.. George Orwell
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'The world is a place on which England is to be found'.. GK Chesterton
'Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.'.. Thomas More
'The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.'.. John Stuart Mill
'The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw'.. Humphry Davy
'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.'.. W H Auden
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.'.. Charles Dickens
'How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.'.. Florence Nightingale
'I dont believe in God but I am very interested in Her'.. Arthur C Clarke
'What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.'.. Samuel Johnson
'He travels best that knows when to return.'.. Thomas More
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'.. T S Eliot