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Famous British Quotes
'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'.. John Stuart Mill
'A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally'.. Oscar Wilde
'The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.'.. Benjamin Disraeli
'Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time'.. Robert Graves
'Milford Haven - the finest port of Christendom'.. Horatio Nelson
'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative'.. John Stuart Mill
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.'.. Beatrix Potter
'The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.'.. Peter Ustinov
'A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.'.. George Eliot
'Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.'.. Lord Byron
'One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.'.. John Bunyan
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'.. D H Lawrence
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'.. T S Eliot
'If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first'.. Peter Ustinov
'A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps'.. Alexander Fleming
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I hate publicity, and I have contrived to survive to be an old woman without it, except in the homey atmosphere of Agricultural Shows'.. Beatrix Potter
'When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.'.. Dylan Thomas
'For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.'.. J M Barrie
'Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.'.. John Milton
'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.'.. Samuel Johnson
'I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.'.. Lord Byron
'Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.'.. George Bernard Shaw
'Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat'.. Horatio Nelson