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Famous British Quotes
'Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.'.. Joseph Conrad
'It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last'.. William Morris
'I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.'.. Lord Byron
'The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.'.. A N Wilson
'I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.'.. Jerome K Jerome
'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.'.. Charles Dickens
'I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.'.. Charles Lamb
'Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.'.. Billy Connolly
'Everybody grows but me.'.. Queen Victoria
'We build too many walls and not enough bridges.'.. Isaac Newton
'A true friend stabs you in the front.'.. Oscar Wilde
'Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.'.. Jonathan Swift
'Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.'.. David Lloyd George
'A week is a long time in politics.'.. Harold Wilson
'A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts'.. Harold Macmillan
'WH Auden didnt love God, he just fancied him'.. Stephen Spender
'I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.'.. Queen Victoria
'A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.'.. Emily Bronte
'Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.'.. Douglas Adams
'Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.'.. Peter O’Toole
'From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends'.. Hilaire Belloc
'Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.'.. Charles Lamb
'History is written by the victors.'.. Winston Churchill
'He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.'.. Evelyn Waugh
'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!'.. Charles Dickens
'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.'.. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting'.. Lord Byron