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Famous British Quotes
'I am humble enough to know I have made mistakes but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are'.. Michael Heseltine
'To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me'.. Isaac Newton
'It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.'.. Somerset Maugham
'My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied'.. Horatio Nelson
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'There is no real wealth but the labor of man.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Success is the child of audacity.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.'.. John Donne
'As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.'.. John Lennon
'Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.'.. John Donne
'Consequences are unpitying.'.. George Eliot
'Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.'.. Robert Browning
'Every noble work is at first impossible.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'A minute's success pays the failure of years.'.. Robert Browning
'There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.'.. Alan Bleasdale
'I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.'.. Noel Coward
'There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me.'.. Alan Sugar
'The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill'.. Peter Ustinov
'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'By nature, men love newfangledness.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.'.. Samuel Johnson
'How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.'.. Arthur C Clarke
'They can't censor the gleam in my eye.'.. Charles Laughton
'Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.'.. John Ruskin
'Though lovers be lost love shall not.'.. Dylan Thomas
'The hardest part of sailing round the world? Stepping on dry land'.. Ellen MacArthur
'Great things are done when men and mountains meet.'.. William Blake