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Famous British Quotes
'I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird'.. Paul McCartney
'All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'.. John Stuart Mill
'God is the perfect poet.'.. Robert Browning
'Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal'.. Malcolm McLaren
'At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.'.. George Orwell
'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith
'So little done, so much to do.'.. Cecil Rhodes
'He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.'.. Oliver Cromwell
'Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.'.. Adam Smith
'Despair is the conclusion of fools.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'.. Bill Shankly
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth
'I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'.. Stephen Fry
'If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.'.. Stan Laurel
'I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.'.. Peter O’Toole
'Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles'.. Richard Burton
'Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.'.. Charles Lamb
'One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.'.. Samuel Johnson
'Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.'.. Spike Milligan
'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.'.. Winston Churchill
'Love is blind.'.. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Endurance is patience concentrated.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.'.. A J P Taylor
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.'.. Lucien Freud
'As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.'.. Jonathan Swift
'The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world'.. Oscar Wilde