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Famous British Quotes
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.'.. James I
'Take away love and our earth is a tomb.'.. Robert Browning
'Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself'.. George Bernard Shaw
'No battle is worth fighting except the last one.'.. Enoch Powell
'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron
'A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.'.. W H Auden
'There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can'.. Jane Austen
'Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline'.. George Eliot
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.'.. W E Gladstone
'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only meaning of life.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'.. Spike Milligan
'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another'.. Jonathan Swift
'Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.'.. Thomas Hardy
'Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy'.. Christine Keeler
'Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.'.. Edmund Burke
'If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.'.. Harold Macmillan
'For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.'.. Walter Scott
'It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason'.. Mary Shelley
'Presteigne - Neither in England nor Wales, simply in Radnorshire'.. George Borrow
'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.'.. T E Lawrence